flouncier

Adjective

flouncy (comparative flouncier, superlative flounciest)

1. Moving with a flounce (“a bouncy, exaggerated manner; an act of departing in a dramatic, haughty way that draws attention to oneself”).
   • [S]he came, saw, and conquered the worthy man whose name she adorns, and whose home she keeps in a manner which is the despair of all the easygoing, hoopy, flouncy, little women, who have made sundry tomtits happy by allowing them to pay their dry-goods bills.1857 July, “The Balaams”, in Putnam’s Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art, volume X, number LV, New York, N.Y.: Oaksmith & Company, […]; London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., →OCLC...
2. (figuratively) Calling attention; flashy, showy; also, elaborate; fancy.
   • Take, as a contrast, a near neighbor on the left, pretty Mrs. Wimbledon, widow of the late Mr. Wimbledon, a young and pretty widow; with a garden that looks so intelligent; with flower-beds so dashing and flouncy; with premium strawberries; with altogether "so engaging a place," as people say, that...1860 December 1, “‘Ye may Know Him by His Garden’”, in Thomas Meehan, editor, The Gardener’s Monthly and Horticultural Advertiser, volume II, number 12, Philadelphia, Pa.: [s.n.], →OCLC, pages 372–373
3. Of a garment, etc.: having a flounce (“strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge”) or flounces; gathered and pleated.
   • [N]ovv praye, vvhat may you call that flouncy garment? for I ſuppoſe it has ſome fine fangled neam belonging to it.1756, [Charlotte] Charke, “Mr. Dumont Arrives at Iver. By Accident another of the Gang is Taken, by which Means the Rest are Found. Young Boistrous and His Sister Make a Discovery at Dumont’s to the...