Etymology

flouncy

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Today it means: Moving with a flounce (“a bouncy, exaggerated manner; an act of departing in a dramatic, haughty way that draws attention to oneself”). Full definition →

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The story

From flounce (noun) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.