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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flounce \Flounce\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flounced} (flounst); p.
pr & vb n. {Flouncing}.] [Cf. OSw. flunsa to immerge.]
To throw the limbs and body one way and the other to spring,
turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle,
as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a
jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure.
To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and
bruise us --Barrow.
With his broad fins and forky tail he laves The rising
sirge, and flounces in the waves. --Addison.
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