flaunt
verb
- to show or exhibit
noun
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Pronunciation: /flɔːnt/ / /flɔnt/ / /flɑnt/
noun
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.
- Anything displayed for show.
“Should I , in these my borrow'd flaunts, behold The sternness of his presence?”
verb
Etymology: By confusion with flout.
- To flout.
“By that late date, however, the golden age of the lurid paperback book was pretty much over, and the sort of punishment meted out to Aday and Maxey for flaunting the sexual mores of a McCarthyite culture would soon be a thing of the past.”
“Wheeler said companies already are flaunting the rules by offering free or sponsored data services for some products.”