Sekirov Dictionary

flirt

UK /flɜːt/US /flɚt/

noun 6
verb 6
adjective 1
forms 3

noun6

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Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person.
- Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world. — 1713
An act of flirting.
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A tentative or brief, passing engagement with something.
- Receiving a chair in Stockholm 1904 – after a passing flirt with the Historical School and social reform – he became an enigmatic Walrasian. — 2014
•
A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion
- several little flirts and vibrations — 1711
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(dialect) A brief shower (of rain or snow).
- In the course of the month, there were three flirts of snow, […] — 1842
Russula vesca, an edible woodland mushroom.

verb6

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To play at courtship; to talk with light affection, to imply sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way.
- Of course, the young people flirted, for that diversion is apparently irradicable even in the "best society". — 1876
To experiment, or tentatively engage, with; to become involved in passing with.
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To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.
- They flirt water in each other's faces.
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To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.
- Her skirt flirted around her knees like a flower petal. — 2012
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To blurt out.
- Chatterer flirted his tale in the saucy way he has, and his eyes twinkled. — 1915
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(no longer used) To jeer at; to mock.
- I am ashamed; I am scorned; I am flirted. — 1621

adjective1

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Flirtatious.
- He had “large dark blue eyes, wide open, very coquet, very flirt in the way he looked at you.” — 2005

forms

flirted · flirting · flirts

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