Plounces vs Flounces - What's the difference?
plounces | flounces |
(plounce)
(rare, obsolete, regional) to plunge
(flounce)
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.
As verbs the difference between plounces and flounces
is that plounces is (plounce) while flounces is (flounce).plounces
English
Verb
(head)plounce
English
Verb
(plounc)References
* *flounces
English
Verb
(head)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.
