Flounce vs Trimming - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between flounce and trimming

is that flounce is to move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner while trimming is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between flounce and trimming

is that flounce is a strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.^Wtrimming is the act of someone who trims.

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

trimming

English

Noun

(en noun)

The act of someone who trims.

I gave a good trimming to my elderly neighbour's hedges.

Material that is removed by someone trimming something, as a piece of steak.

:He gave the trimmings to the dog under the kitchen table.

An accompaniment to a meal.

:Christmas dinner with all the trimmings

(colloquial, dated) A reprimand or chastisting.

to give a boy a trimming

Verb

(head)

:I am helping my elderly neighbour by trimming his hedge.