coquet

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French coquet (“little cockerel”), from coq (“cockerel”) + -et (“masculine diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒk.ɛt/

Noun

coquet (plural coquets)

1. A flirtatious female; a coquette.
2. (obsolete) A flirtatious male.

Verb

coquet (third-person singular simple present coquets, present participle coquetting, simple past and past participle coquetted)

1. To act as a flirt or coquet.
2. To waste time; to dally.
3. To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint.
   • Jonathan Swift

     You are coquetting a maid of honour.

Derived terms

• coquettish

Translations

act as a flirt or coquet

• Danish: kokettere
• Finnish: koketeerata (fi)
• German: kokettieren (de)

• Norwegian: kokettere
• Polish: kokietować (pl)
• Swedish: kokettera (sv)

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Dutch

Adjective

coquet (comparative coquetter, superlative coquetst)

1. superseded spelling of koket.

Inflection

Inflection of coquet
uninflected	coquet
inflected	coquette
comparative	coquetter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		coquet	coquetter	het coquetst het coquetste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	coquette	coquettere	coquetste
	n. sing.	coquet	coquetter	coquetste
	plural	coquette	coquettere	coquetste
definite		coquette	coquettere	coquetste
partitive		coquets	coquetters	—

Usage notes

• The spelling coquet was deprecated in 1996 in the new Groene Boekje (“Little Green Book”) spelling reform.

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French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

coquet (feminine singular coquette, masculine plural coquets, feminine plural coquettes)

1. vain, conscious of one's appearance
2. sweet, cute, charming

Derived terms

• coquetterie

Descendants

• German: kokett

Further reading

• “coquet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Verb

coquet

1. third-person singular future active indicative of coquō