Flouncing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


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           To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and
           bruise us.                               --Barrow.
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           With his broad fins and forky tail he laves
           The rising sirge, and flounces in the waves. --Addison.
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