Flounce vs. Frill — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Flounce and Frill
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Flounce
A strip of decorative, usually gathered or pleated material attached by one edge, as on a garment or curtain.
Frill
A ruffled, gathered, or pleated border or projection, such as a fabric edge used to trim clothing.
Flounce
The act or motion of flouncing.
Frill
A projection as of hair, feathers, bone, or cartilage, about the neck of an animal.
Flounce
To trim with a strip or strips of gathered or pleated material.
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Frill
A wrinkling of the edge of a photographic film.
Flounce
To move in a lively or bouncy manner
The children flounced around the room in their costumes.
Frill
(Informal)Something that is desirable but not a necessity; a luxury.
Flounce
To move with exaggerated or affected motions
Flounced petulantly out of the house.
Frill
To make into a ruffle or frill.
Flounce
To move clumsily; flounder.
Frill
To add a ruffle or frill to.
Flounce
To move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner.
Frill
To become wrinkled along the edge.
Flounce
(archaic) To flounder; to make spastic motions.
Frill
A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.
Flounce
To decorate with a flounce.
Frill
(figurative) A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.
Flounce
To depart in a haughty, dramatic way that draws attention to oneself.
After failing to win the leadership election, he flounced dramatically.
Frill
(photography) A wrinkled edge to a film.
Flounce
(sewing) A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.W
Frill
(figurative) Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury.
Flounce
The act of flouncing.
Frill
(zoology) The relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles, with either a bony support or a cartilaginous one.
Flounce
A row of spines, corrugations, or skin folds on the hemipenis of a snake.
Frill
(transitive) To make into a frill.
Flounce
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.
With his broad fins and forky tail he lavesThe rising sirge, and flounces in the waves.
Frill
(intransitive) To become wrinkled.
Flounce
To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.
Frill
(transitive) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
Flounce
The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.
Frill
To shake or shiver as with cold (with reference to a hawk).
Flounce
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.
Frill
To cry (with reference to a bird of prey).
Flounce
A strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
Frill
To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.
Flounce
The act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions
Frill
To wrinkle; - said of the gelatin film.
Flounce
Walk emphatically
Frill
To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.
Frill
A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.
Frill
A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.
Frill
Something superfluous, such as an ornament, or an additional function on a device or in a system not essential to the basic operation. - Commonly used in the phrase no frills, used adjectively to indicate a fully functional but economical device or service; as, an economical no-frills airline.
Frill
A strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
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