flirt
Meaning of flirt
verb
- behave as though sexually attracted to someone, but playfully rather than with serious intentions.
she began to tease him, flirting with other men in front of him
- (of a bird) wave or open and shut (its wings or tail) with a quick flicking motion.
a moorhen stepped out of the reeds, flirting its white tail
- a person who habitually flirts.
Jim was an outrageous flirt
mid 16th century: apparently symbolic, the elements fl- and -irt both suggesting sudden movement; compare with flick and spurt. The original verb senses were ‘give someone a sharp blow’ and ‘sneer at’; the earliest noun senses were ‘joke, jibe’ and ‘flighty girl’ (defined by Dr Johnson as ‘a pert young hussey’), with a notion originally of cheeky behaviour, later of playfully amorous behaviour.
Information about flirt
- The plural form of flirt is: flirts.
- Languages in which flirt is used:
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flirt
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- flirt is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
flirt synonyms
Meaning coquette:
coquette, vamp, vamper, minx, tease, prickteaser
Meaning flirting:
flirting, flirtation, coquetry, dalliance, toying
Meaning chat up:
dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash
Meaning dally:
Meaning be involved with (someone) romantically, with the intention of marrying:
Meaning seek the favour, support, or custom of:
Meaning exert force on (someone or something) so as to cause movement towards oneself:
Meaning a person who is very attractive but who is irresponsible in emotional relationships:
Meaning a man who readily or frequently enters into casual sexual relationships with women; a womanizer:
Meaning a woman who seduces someone, especially one who entices a man into sexual activity:
Meaning a woman who is considered to be alluring or fascinating but also dangerous in some way:
Meaning a woman who uses magic to put someone or something under a spell:
Meaning a female sorcerer; a witch:
Meaning a silly or flirtatious young woman:
Meaning a man who is charmingly attentive to women:
Translation of flirt
- Spanish: coquetear, flirtear
- Italian: flirtare, corteggiare, provarci
- French: flirter, draguer
- German: flirten, anbaggern, anmachen, aufreißen
- Portuguese: flertar
Words that rhyme with flirt
blirt, fireflirt, gillflirt, gilliflirt, jillflirt, slirt
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