Flounce vs Furbelow - What's the difference?
flounce | furbelow |
To move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner.
(archaic) To flounder; to make spastic motions.
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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.
A ruffle, frill or flounce on clothing.
A decorative piece of fabric, usually gathered or pleated.
A small, showy ornamentation.
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As verbs the difference between flounce and furbelow
is that flounce is to move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner while furbelow is to adorn with a furbelow; to ornament.As nouns the difference between flounce and furbelow
is that flounce is a strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.Wfurbelow is a ruffle, frill or flounce on clothing.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.
