coquette

English

WOTD – 29 October 2015

Etymology

Borrowed from French coquette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɒˈkɛt/
• IPA^(key): /koʊˈkɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

coquette (plural coquettes)

1. A woman who flirts or plays with men's affections.
2. Any hummingbird in the genus Lophornis

Related terms

• coquetry
• coquettish

• coquettishly
• coquettishness

Translations

flirtatious woman

• Armenian: կոկետուհի (hy) (koketuhi), պչրուհի (hy) (pčʻruhi)
• Bulgarian: коке́тка (bg) (kokétka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 風騷女子／风骚女子, 风骚女子 (fēngsāo nǚzǐ), 狐狸精 (zh) (húlijīng)

• Czech: koketa
• Finnish: hempukka (fi), keimailija (fi), koketti (fi)
• French: allumeuse (fr) f, coquette (fr) f
• German: Kokette f, Schäkerin f
• Japanese: 男誑し (おとこたらし, otokotarashi), コケット (koketto)
• Korean: 요부 (yobu)
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• Maori: hinehine
• Portuguese: coquete (pt) f
• Russian: коке́тка (ru) f (kokétka), вертихво́стка (ru) f (vertixvóstka) (disapprovingly)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кокета f

  Roman: koketa (sh) f

• Swedish: kokett (sv) c
• Turkish: yosma (tr), oynak (tr)

Verb

coquette (third-person singular simple present coquett, present participle es, simple past and past participle coquetted)

1. 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.

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French

Etymology

From coquet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.kɛt/

Adjective

coquette

1. feminine singular of coquet

Noun

coquette f (plural coquettes)

1. flirt, tease

   Elle est une vraie coquette.

   She's such a flirt.

Descendants

• Dutch koket
• English: coquette
• Esperanto: koketa

• Serbo-Croatian: koketa
• Spanish coqueto

Further reading

• “coquette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.