FLAUNT, FLAUNTING
ADJECTIVES
► FLANTITANTING flaunting → 1596 obs.
► RANTING flaunting → c1685 obs.
► TATHERY-OUTERY flaunting, tawdry → 1905 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► VANDYKE flaunting, careering → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ZOOMY flaunting and showy; fast and stylish, high-flying → 1970s US sl.
NOUNS
► BALLING a flaunting one’s possessions, showing off → 2000s sl.
► STRUT display, a flaunting in fine attire → 1303 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► SWINGEBREECH a person who flaunts or struts about → 1581 obs.
► VANDYKE a flaunting figure → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
VERBS
► AFFICHE to flaunt, to parade; to advertise, to publicize; to display, to show → 1817
► AFFICHER to flaunt, to parade; to display ostentatiously; to advertise → 1814
► CUT IT OUT to flaunt, to make a show, to cut a dash → 1619 obs.
► FAN to flaunt oneself deliberately in order to gain sexual interest → 1902 US sl.
► FAN ONE’S PUSSY to flaunt oneself sexually; said of a woman → 1960s African-American sl.
► LAUNCH IT OUT to flaunt, to make a display → 1622 obs.
► PAVONIZE to flaunt one’s appearance in a vain fashion; to strut; to behave as a peacock → 1838 obs.
► VANDYKE to dress flauntingly → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
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