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Terms vs Flaunts - What's the difference?

terms | flaunts |

As a noun terms

is .

As a verb flaunts is

(flaunt).

terms

English

Noun

(head)
  • Statistics

    * ----

    flaunts

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (flaunt)

  • 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.