flaunt
/flɔnt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.92 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To flout.
Example Sentences
- "The black, rich soil had fed itself with the decay of a long period of time; such as fallen leaves, the petals of flowers, and the stalks and seed-vessels of vagrant and lawless plants, more useful after their death than ever while flaunting in the sun."
- "Flaunt away, flags of all nations! be duly lower’d at sunset!"
- "At the corner of the bridge, too, I saw one of the common contrasts of that grotesque time—a sheet of paper flaunting against a thicket of the Red Weed, transfixed by a stick that kept it in place."
- "The house came into sight, above the cedar grove beyond whose black interstices an apple orchard flaunted in the sunny afternoon."
- "Near-synonym: vaunt"
- "She’s always flaunting her designer clothes."
Etymology
Of North Germanic origin. Perhaps related to Norwegian flanta (“to show off, wander about”), Icelandic flana (“to rush about, act rashly or heedlessly”) and then also to French flâner (“to wander around, loiter”). Alternatively, it could be related to Swedish flankt (“loosely, flutteringly”) (compare English flaunt-a-flaunt), from flanka (“waver, hang and wave about, ramble”), a nasalised variant of flakka (“to waver”), related to Middle English flacken (“to move to and fro, flutter, palpitate”). See flack.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /flɔnt/
- British English: /flɔːnt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
flaunts (present, singular)
flaunting (participle, present)
flaunted (participle, past)
flaunted (past)
flant (alternative, obsolete)
flaunts (plural)