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  • adverb In a flouncy manner.

Etymologies

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flouncy +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • In practice, though, there's a big problem: although the waves associated with atoms move agreeably slowly, they are also flouncily delicate beasts and cannot travel more than a metre or so before losing the quantum character that allows them to interfere.

    New Scientist - Online News 2010

  • Ghosts sashay flouncily towards you in a strange sort of dance rather than shambling or scuttling or doing anything else remotely threatening.

    Eurogamer 2009

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