flauntyadj.
/ˈflɔːnti/, U.S. /ˈflɔn(t)i/, /ˈflɑn(t)i/ 1.
a. Of persons: Given to display or show, ostentatious, vain.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adjective]
rankOE
peacockly?a1425
ruffling1531
garish1545
peacockish1551
peacock-like1576
ostentatious1590
fastuous?1591
flaring1593
flantitanting1596
ostentive1599
ostentative1601
showful1607
flourishable1614
flourishing1616
flaunting1624
ostentous1624
ostentatory1638
swasha1640
fanfaron1670
paradeful1748
ostensible1782
epideictic1790
fandangous1797
flashy1801
affiché1818
show-off1818
splashing1820
flaunty1825
splash-and-dash1830
pretentious1832
flash1836
splashy1836
pretenceful1841
swanky1842
peacocky1844
fantysheeny1847
splurgy1852
cheesy1858
pretensivea1868
duchessy1870
swagger1879
lavish1882
splurging1884
show-offy1890
razzmatazz1900
show-offish1903
whoop-de-do1904
Ritz1908
split-arse1917
swanking1918
ritzy1919
fantoosh1920
knock-me-down1922
showboating1936
showboat1939
hellzapoppin'1945
zazzy1961
glitzy1966
sploshy1966
zhuzhy1968
noncy1989
bling1999
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 585 A boy in female attire, indescribably flaunty and gaudy.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xvii. 292 There's a flaunty sort of young woman at the poteen shop there.
b. Of things: Showy, gaudy.
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [adjective]
fine1526
garish1545
flaunting1567
gawish1567
taffety1597
showful1607
flaming1609
flaring1610
over-brave1620
showish1675
rantingc1685
gaudy1709
showy1712
tinselled1738
kicky1790
flaunty1796
flashy1801
slangish1813
florid1815
tigerish1831
flash1836
flary1841
loud1850
flashy-looking1852
splurgy1852
cheesy1858
flagrant1858
jingo1859
cheesy1863
orchidaceous1864
flamboyant1879
vociferous1883
voyant1906
grandstanding1908
floozy1911
ritzy1919
like a (or the) dog's dinner1927
plush horse1936
kitsch1953
zazzy1961
pizzazz1969
1796 J. Owen Trav. Europe II. 260 These flaunty caps are of no mean expence.
1843 Ld. Houghton Let. 30 May in T. W. Reid Life Ld. Houghton (1890) I. vii. 292 His mind seems somewhat less flaunty.
1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 32 While your common men..dust the flaunty carpets of the world For kings to walk on.
2. Scottish. ‘Capricious, eccentric, unsteady.’ (Jamieson).
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1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish xx. 198 She was a flaunty woman, and liked well to give a good-humoured jibe or jeer.
Derivatives
ˈflauntily adv.
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [adverb]
flauntingly1584
garishly1593
showfully1613
flashily1736
showily1755
gaudily1764
violently1771
flauntily1830
loudly1849
snazzily1980
glitzily1982
1830 Examiner 323/2 We like people to..air their gaudiest pretensions bravely and flauntily.
1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) iii, in Writings I. 24 A woman flauntily dressed..suddenly entered the shop.
ˈflauntiness n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [noun]
finesse1549
garishness1598
gaudiness1601
finery1656
glare1706
snobbery1843
flauntiness1854
flashiness1855
shoddyism1865
loudness1881
obtrusiveness1881
floridity1883
flashness1885
orchidacity1897
pizzazz1937
neon1958
snazziness1961
1854 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 75 434 Effeminacy of composition, and flauntiness of colouring.
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