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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Flounce v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flounced p. pr. & vb. n. Flouncing ]  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.