Noah Webster
Flaunt
FL'AUNT, verb intransitive [I know not whence we have this word. From the root Latin bearing the sense of throwing out, or spreading. See Flounce.]
1. To throw or spread out; to flutter; to display ostentatiously; as a flaunting show.
You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot.
One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade.
[This correctly expresses the author's meaning, which is, that the proud often attempt to make a show and parade of their importance, even in poverty. Johnson's remark on the use of the word seems therefore to be unfounded.]
2. To carry a pert or saucy appearance.
FL'AUNT, noun Any thing displayed for show.