coquet

English

Etymology

Borrowed 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 Superseded spelling of koket.

Usage notes

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

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	—

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.kɛ/

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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

• → Dutch: koket
• → 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