At Does Flaunt Mean?

transitive verb. 1 : to display ostentatiously or impudently : parade flaunting his superiority a chance to flaunt clothes, bodies, and sexuality — New Yorker. 2 : to treat contemptuously flaunted the rules— Louis Untermeyer.

What is the meaning of peacocks flaunt?

To flaunt means ''to display proudly, even ostentatiously,'' the way a peacock shows its feathers; indeed, an early use of the word in 1576 was set in the phrase ''whose fethers flaunt, and flicker in the winde. '' ... With the substitution of the word flaunting for flouting . . . the destruction is now complete.

Is it flaunt or flout?

If you treat a convention with disdain you are flouting it. If you make an ostentatious display of something then you are flaunting it.