Gadrouillette, f. A minx, gigle, flirt, callet, Gixie; (a feigned word, appliable to any such cattell).—Cotgrave, A French and English Dictionary, ed. 1673.
Flounce. This word, meaning ‘to plunge about,’ must not be confused with ‘flounce’ (a part of a dress); see Skeat’s Dictionary.
After an exhortation to his army, he [the Emperor Conrad] commanded them all at once to flounce into the river.—Fuller, Holy War, b. ii. c. 28.
Launch now into the whirlpool, or rather flounce into the mud and quagmire.—Hacket, Life of Archbishop Williams, vol. ii. p. 200.
Fondling. ‘Fond’ retains to this day, at least in poetry, not seldom the sense of foolish; but a ‘fondling’ is no longer a fool.
An epicure hath some reason to allege, an extortioner is a man of wisdom, and acteth prudently in comparison to him; but this fondling [the profane swearer] offendeth heaven and abandoneth happiness he knoweth not why or for what.—Barrow, Sermon 15.
We have many such fondlings, that are their wives’ pack-horses and slaves.—Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sect. 3.
Forgetful. Exactly the converse of what has happened to ‘dreadful’ and ‘frightful’ (which see) has befallen ‘forgetful.’
It may be the forgetful wine begot
Some sudden blow, and thereupon this challenge.