Crinkle vs Flounce - What's the difference?
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(ambitransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
* L. T. Trowbridge
* Elizabeth Browning
A wrinkle, fold, crease or unevenness.
To move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner.
(archaic) To flounder; to make spastic motions.
* Barrow
* Addison
To decorate with a flounce.
To leave a group dramatically, in a way that draws attention to oneself.
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(sewing) A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.(w)
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The act of flouncing.
Crinkle is a related term of flounce.
As verbs the difference between crinkle and flounce
is that crinkle is (ambitransitive) to fold, crease, crumple, or wad while flounce is to move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner.As nouns the difference between crinkle and flounce
is that crinkle is a wrinkle, fold, crease or unevenness while flounce is (sewing) a strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle(w).crinkle
English
Verb
(crinkl)- He crinkled the wrapper and threw it out.
- The old man's lined face crinkled into a smile.
- The green wheat crinkles like a lake.
- All the rooms were full of crinkling silks.
Noun
(en noun)- He observed the crinkles forming around his eyes and suddenly felt old.
Anagrams
*flounce
English
Verb
(flounc)- To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us.
- With his broad fins and forky tail he laves / The rising surge, and flounces in the waves.
- After failing to win the leadership election, he flounced dramatically.
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
