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When I was a teen in High School, I distinctly remember coming across such a word while turning over the pages of a paperback dictionary.

The meaning was something like this:

A person who knows he has the attention of everyone in the room, overreacts and grumpily leaves the room (may be shutting the door behind). Imagining a teenage girl might help. What is the word for this?

P.S. Knowing the word would give me inner peace, as of now my ignorance of the word leaves me with a deep sense of dissatisfaction.

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    Was it Storm out??
    – vickyace
    Commented Mar 21, 2017 at 17:34
  • No, it was a single word, pretty obscure one at that.
    – Rio1210
    Commented Mar 21, 2017 at 17:35
  • Was it lengthy?
    – vickyace
    Commented Mar 21, 2017 at 17:35
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    Flouncing out?
    – MissMonicaE
    Commented Mar 21, 2017 at 17:38
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    @HotLicks As I was looking for a particular word that I knew before, so I was not receptive to the phrase storm out. The word Flounce alone has the meaning according to my paperback as - "To move somewhere in a way that draws attention to yourself, for example because you are angry or upset." Basically, the word flounce rang a bell in my head, the phrase storm out is already familiar to me. Sorry if this caused any confusion.
    – Rio1210
    Commented Mar 21, 2017 at 17:55

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One word for this is flounce , given by the Oxford dictionary as:

Go or move in an exaggeratedly impatient or angry manner.

as in

‘he stood up in a fury and flounced out’

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    That's two words, and less well recognized than "stormed out".
    – Hot Licks
    Commented Mar 21, 2017 at 17:44
  • @HotLicks I agree with you that "stormed out" is more recognized. Nonetheless, I accepted this answer, as it was the word I was looking for.
    – Rio1210
    Commented Mar 21, 2017 at 18:01
  • @HotLicks: In my neck of the woods we're more likely to use stomped off than stormed out (unless we actually want the slightly "affected, florid, poetic" overtones of flouncing).
    – FumbleFingers
    Commented Mar 21, 2017 at 18:35

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