[The vb. stem so used.] With a flounce; with a sudden jerk or flop.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 89.
| Flownce to the stars towring thee fire, lyke a pellet, is hurled, | |
| Ragd rocks vp raking. |
1604. Meeting of Gallants, 21. At last with much adoe he fell flounce into the Saddle, and away he scudded out at townes end, where he thought euery Tree he saw had bene rising vp to stop him.
1707. Farquhar, Beaux’ Stratagem, II. i., Wks. 1892, II. 260. After his man and he had rolled about the room, like sick passengers in a storm, he comes flounce into bed, dead as a salmon into a fishmonger’s basket; his feet cold as ice, his breath hot as a furnace, and his hands and his face as greasy as his flannel nightcap.
