flirt
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From Early Modern English flirt (verb) "to flick" and flirt (noun) "giddy girl". Akin to Saterland Frisian flirt "a flick, light blow", flirtje "a giddy girl". Cf. Low Saxon flirtje "flirt", German Flirtchen "flirt"
[edit] Noun
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flirt (plural flirts)
- A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer.
- One who flirts; esp., a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl.
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one who flirts
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[edit] Verb
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to 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 play the coquette; to play at courtship; to coquet; as, they flirt with the young men.
- To utter contemptuous language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe.
- (figurative) to consider or contemplate
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to toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro
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to jeer at
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to play at courtship
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to utter contemptuous language
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flirt (not comparable)
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[edit] Noun
flirt m.
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| Singular | Plural | |
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| Nominative | flirt | flirty |
| Genitive | flirtu | flirtów |
| Dative | flirtowi | flirtom |
| Accusative | flirt | flirty |
| Instrumental | flirtem | flirtami |
| Locative | flircie | flirtach |
| Vocative | flircie | flirty |
