Other forms: flaunting, flaunts, flaunted
To flaunt is to show something off to make others notice. Flaunt your wealth, flaunt it, flaunting her success.
It is not the same word as flout, which means to disregard a rule, and mixing them up is one of the commonest errors in English — you flout a law and flaunt a diamond. If you have it, flaunt it is the phrase everybody knows.
1verbflauntTo show something off to make others notice.
“She loves to flaunt her new jewellery at parties.”
flaunt is a showing off.
Probably from a Scandinavian source; a Norwegian word flanta means to show off or wander about.
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Of gmq 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA