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Prance vs Flounce - What's the difference?

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Prance is a related term of flounce.


As nouns the difference between prance and flounce

is that prance is (uncommon) the act of prancing while flounce is (sewing) a strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle(w).

As verbs the difference between prance and flounce

is that prance is (of a horse) to spring forward on the hind legs while flounce is to move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner.

prance

English

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Noun

(en noun)
  • (uncommon) The act of prancing.

    • Verb

  • (of a horse) To spring forward on the hind legs.
  • (colloquial, figuratively) To strut about.

    • 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