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Word entry · 6 letters

flaunt

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"Show off"

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6 lettersPronunciation /flɔːnt/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aflntuStarts with FEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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