Etymograph

English

flouncy

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

Formed from flounce + -y

Norwegian flunsa ‘hurry’

English flounce

The story

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

Today it means

adj Moving with a flounce (“a bouncy, exaggerated manner; an act of departing in a dramatic, haughty way that draws attention to oneself”).

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / flouncy