Bounce vs Flounce - What's the difference?

Bounce is a related term of flounce.

In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between bounce and flounce

is that bounce is (archaic) to boast; to bluster while flounce is (archaic) to flounder; to make spastic motions.

As verbs the difference between bounce and flounce

is that bounce is to change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle while flounce is to move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner.

As nouns the difference between bounce and flounce

is that bounce is a change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle while flounce is (sewing) a strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle^(w).

bounce

English

(wikipedia bounce)

Verb

(bounc)

To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.

The tennis ball bounced off the wall before coming to rest in the ditch.

To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.

He bounces nervously on his chair.

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, date=May 13 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Black Cats contributed to their own downfall for the only goal when Titus Bramble, making his first appearance since Boxing Day, and Michael Turner, let Phil Jones' cross bounce across the six-yard box as Rooney tucked in at the back post.}}

To cause to move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.

He bounced the child on his knee.

To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.

She bounced into the room.

To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.

We can’t accept further checks from you, as your last one bounced .

(informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).

He tends to bounce a check or two toward the end of each month, before his payday.

(slang) To leave.

Let’s wrap this up, I gotta bounce .

(US, slang, dated) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.

(intransitive, slang, African American Vernacular English) (sometimes employing the preposition with ) To have sexual intercourse.

(air combat) To attack unexpectedly.

The squadron was bounced north of the town.

(electronics) To turn power off and back on; to reset

See if it helps to bounce the router.

(intransitive, Internet, of an e-mail message or address) To return undelivered.

What’s your new email address – the old one bounces .

The girl in the bar told me her address is thirsty@example.com, but my mail to that address bounced back to me.

(aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.

The student pilot bounced several times during his landing.

(slang, dated) To bully; to scold.

(archaic) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.

* Jonathan Swift

Another bounces as hard as he can knock.

* Jonathan Swift

Out bounced the mastiff.

(archaic) To boast; to bluster.

Synonyms

* (change direction of motion after hitting an obstacle) bounce back, rebound * (move quickly up and down) bob

Derived terms

* bounceable * bounce back, bounceback * bouncedown * bouncer * bounce rate * bouncing * bouncy * debounce

Noun

(en noun)

A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.

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, title= Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark , passage=Krohn-Dehli took advantage of a lucky bounce of the ball after a battling run on the left flank by Simon Poulsen, dummied two defenders and shot low through goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg's legs after 24 minutes.}}

A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.

An email return with any error.

The sack, licensing.

A bang, boom.

* 1773 , (Oliver Goldsmith),

I don't value her resentment the bounce of a cracker.

A drink based on brandy^(w).

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, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.}}

A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.

* Dryden

The bounce burst open the door.

Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.

(Johnson)

(De Quincey)

Scyllium catulus , a European dogfish.

A genre of New Orleans music.

(slang, African American Vernacular English) Drugs.

(slang, African American Vernacular English) Swagger.

(slang, African American Vernacular English) A 'good' beat.

(slang, African American Vernacular English) A talent for leaping.

Synonyms

* (change of direction of motion after hitting an obstacle) rebound * (movement up and down) bob, bobbing (repeated), bouncing (repeated) * (talent for leaping) ups, mad ups

Derived terms

* bouncy * on the bounce English ergative verbs

flounce

English

Verb

(flounc)

To move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner.

(archaic) To flounder; to make spastic motions.

* Barrow

To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us.

* Addison

With his broad fins and forky tail he laves / The rising surge, and flounces in the waves.

To decorate with a flounce.

To leave a group dramatically, in a way that draws attention to oneself.

After failing to win the leadership election, he flounced dramatically.

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Noun

(en noun)

(sewing) A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.^(w)

Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces , lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

The act of flouncing.

Derived terms

* flouncy