flirt
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /flɜː(ɹ)t/, SAMPA: /fl3:(r)t/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)t
- (US) IPA: /flɝt/, SAMPA: /fl3`t/
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[edit] Etymology
1553, from the merger of Early Modern English flirt (“to flick”), flurt (“to mock, jibe, scorn”), and flirt, flurt (“a giddy girl”). Of obscure origin and relation. Apparently related to similar words in Germanic, compare Eastern Frisian flirt (“a flick of the fingers, a light blow”), Eastern Frisian flirtje (“a giddy girl”), Low German flirtje (“a flirt”), German Flirtchen (“a flirt”), Norwegian flira (“to giggle, titter”). Perhaps from Middle English gill-flurt (“a flirt”), or an alteration of flird (“a trifling", also, "to jibe, jeer at”), from Middle English flerd (“mockery, fraud, deception”), from Old English fleard (“nonsense, vanity, folly, deception”). Compare Scots flird (“to talk idly, flirt, flaunt”). See flird.
[edit] Noun
flirt (plural flirts)
- A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer.
- One who flirts; especially a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl.
[edit] Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:flirt
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[edit] Verb
flirt (third-person singular simple present flirts, present participle flirting, simple past and past participle flirted)
- 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.
- To toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan.
- 1915 Burgess, Thornton W., The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel, Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, Ch. XXI:
- Chatterer flirted his tale in the saucy way he has, and his eyes twinkled.
- To jeer at; to treat with contempt; to mock.
- To run about; to dart; to flit; to act with giddiness, or from a desire to attract notice.
- To insinuate emotional affection and/or sexual attraction through charm and playfulness; to play at courtship
- To utter contemptuous language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe.
- (figurative) to consider or contemplate
[edit] Antonyms
- ("to insinuate emotional affection"): belittle
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[edit] Adjective
flirt (not comparable)
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[edit] See also
- See also Wikisaurus:flirt
[edit] Dutch
[edit] Verb
flirt
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of flirten.
- imperative of flirten.
[edit] Polish
[edit] Noun
flirt m.
