coquet
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French coquet (“little cockerel”), from coq (“cockerel”) + -et (“masculine diminutive suffix”).
Pronunciation
Noun
coquet (plural coquets)
- A flirtatious female; a coquette.
- (obsolete) A flirtatious male.
Verb
coquet (third-person singular simple present coquets, present participle coquetting, simple past and past participle coquetted)
- To act as a flirt or coquet.
- To waste time; to dally.
- 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.
- Jonathan Swift
Derived terms
Translations
act as a flirt or coquet
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Dutch
Adjective
coquet (comparative coquetter, superlative coquetst)
Usage notes
- The spelling coquet was deprecated in 1996 in the new Groene Boekje (“Little Green Book”) spelling reform.
Inflection
Declension of coquet | ||||
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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 | — |
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
coquet (feminine coquette, masculine plural coquets, feminine plural coquettes)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “coquet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) coquet
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