Flirt
[flɜːt] or [flɝt]
Definition
(v. t.) To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.
(v. t.) To toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan.
(v. t.) To jeer at; to treat with contempt; to mock.
(v. i.) To run and dart about; to act with giddiness, or from a desire to attract notice; especially, to play the coquette; to play at courtship; to coquet; as, they flirt with the young men.
(v. i.) To utter contemptuous language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe.
(n.) A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer.
(v. t.) One who flirts; esp., a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl.
(a.) Pert; wanton.
Typed by Harrison
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Throw (with a jerk), toss, fling, pitch, hurl, chuck, shy.
v. n. Coquet, philander, make love, make a show of love, affect to be in love, play at courtship.
n. [1]. Coquette, jilt.[2]. Jerk, sudden fling.
Checker: Noelle
Definition
v.t. to move about quickly like a fan to flick rap.—v.i. to trifle with love: to play at courtship: to move briskly about.—n. a pert giddy girl: one who coquets for amusement usually of a woman.—n. Flirtā′tion the act of flirting.—adj. Flirtā′tious (coll.) giving to flirting.—ns. Flirt′-gill (Shak.) a pert or wanton woman; Flirt′ing.—adv. Flirt′ingly in a flirting manner.—adj. Flirt′ish betokening a flirt.
Checker: Phelps
Examples
- General Tufto is a great flirt of mine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And some of your beaux may perhaps be brought to flirt with her, poor thing! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Ned was offended and turned to Sallie for consolation, saying to her rather pettishly, There isn't a bit of flirt in that girl, is there? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Robert is no puppy or male flirt; I can vouch for that. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- At Brighton she will be of less importance even as a common flirt than she has been here. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- She is not a flirt, I believe? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Still, my dear Maurice, you must pardon my plain speech, but she did flirt terribly with Rudolph. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- You can have as much flirting as you like--at your Boffins. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- How dear Emily is flirting with the strange gentleman,' whispered the spinster aunt, with true spinster-aunt-like envy, to her brother, Mr. Wardle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Have you had any flirting? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- As to you, you have been flirting with Miss Mann. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mother doesn't approve of flirting even in fun, and you do flirt desperately, Teddy. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I attached myself to a young creature in pink, with little eyes, and flirted with her desperately. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She had flirted with all the marriageable officers whom the depots of her country afforded, and all the bachelor squires who seemed eligible. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In fact, they flirted; and Lydgate was secure in the belief that they did nothing else. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- During his four months in Egypt he flirted with religious emotions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Meg danced and flirted, chattered and giggled, as the other girls did. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I haven't flirted, Mother, truly, but remembered what you said to me, and have done my very best. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Though Laurie flirted with Amy and joked with Jo, his manner to Beth had always been peculiarly kind and gentle, but so was everybody's. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We don't like romps and flirts, though we may act as if we did sometimes. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- And why, Lucy, can't you look and feel as I do--buoyant, courageousand fit to defy all the nuns and flirts in Christendom? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Checked by Kenneth