flounce /ˈflaʊn(t)s/
 衣裙上的荷邊裝飾,掙扎,掙脫(vt.)飾以荷葉邊(vi.)跳動,突然離去,掙扎


 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.


 Flounce n. The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.


 Flounce, n.  An ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left hanging.


 Flounce, v. t. To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.

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 flounce
      n 1: a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
           [syn: frill, ruffle, furbelow]
      2: the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions
      v : walk emphatically