coquette
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French coquette.
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛt
Noun
coquette (plural coquettes)
- A woman who flirts or plays with men's affections.
- Any hummingbird in the genus Lophornis
Related terms
Translations
flirtatious woman
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Verb
coquette (third-person singular simple present coquett, present participle es, simple past and past participle coquetted)
- Alternative form of coquet
- 1875, Herbert Eastwick Compton, Semi-tropical trifles:
- Nobber has no small opinion of himself: he considers himself the Adonis of the Pondaati eleven, and he contemplates society as though it were Venus, and it was his mission to posturize before it, and coquette and toy with it.
French
Etymology
From coquet.
Pronunciation
Adjective
coquette
Noun
coquette f (plural coquettes)
Descendants
Further reading
- “coquette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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