Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To wave or flutter smartly in the wind.

To parade, display with ostentation.

She's always flaunting her designer clothes.

(intransitive, archaic, or, literary) To show off, as with flashy clothing.

* Arbuthnot

You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot.

* Alexander Pope

One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade.

* 1856 , ,

[T]he younger belles had begun to flaunt in the French fashions of flimsy muslins, shortwaisted— narrow-skirted.

* 1897 , ,

… and Mrs. Wix seemed to flaunt there in her finery.

Verb

(dangl)

to hang loosely with the ability to swing

* Hudibras

He'd rather on a gibbet dangle / Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle.

* Tennyson

From her lifted hand / Dangled a length of ribbon.

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(intransitive, slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.

To hang or trail something loosely.

To trail or follow around.

* 1833 , Miller's Modern Acting Drama

To dangle at the elbow of a wench who can't make up her mind to accept the common title of wife, till she has been courted a certain number of weeks — so the old blinker, her father, says.