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Flaunt vs Aflaunt - What's the difference?

flaunt | aflaunt |

As a verb flaunt

is (obsolete) to wave or flutter smartly in the wind.

As an adjective aflaunt is

in a flaunting state or position.

flaunt

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

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.

    Usage notes

    * Do not confuse with flout.

    aflaunt

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • In a flaunting state or position.
  • * 1614 , Copley's Wits, Fits, and Fancies
    • Hee that of himself doth bragge, boast, and vaunt, / Hath ill neighbours about him to set him aflaunt .