coquettish

English

Etymology

From coquett(e) +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

coquettish (comparative more coquettish, superlative most coquettish)

1. Of, being, or characteristic of a young, flirtatious girl.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     'Is there that about me that should affright a man? Then surely are men changed from what they used to be!' And with a little coquettish movement she turned herself, and held up one arm, so as to show all her loveliness and the rich hair of raven blackness that streamed in soft ripples down her snowy robes, almost to her sandalled feet.

   • 2025 October 15, Virginia Giuffre, “‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     When Prince Andrew arrived at the house that evening, Maxwell was more coquettish than usual.

Synonyms

• flirtatious

Antonyms

• uncoquettish

Derived terms

• coquettishly
• coquettishness

Translations

as a young, flirting girl; flirtatious

• Burmese: နန့် (my) (nan.)
• Catalan: coqueta (ca)
• Dutch: koket (nl), behaagziek (nl), flirterig (nl)
• Esperanto: koketa
• Finnish: keimaileva (fi)
• French: coquette (fr)
• German: kokett (de), gefallsüchtig
• Hungarian: kacér (hu), kokett (hu)
• Italian: civettuolo (it)
• Kapampangan: magayut, malantung, malarit
• Norwegian: kokett
• Persian: لوند (fa) (lavand)
• Portuguese: coquete (pt)
• Russian: коке́тливый (ru) (kokétlivyj), игри́вый (ru) (igrívyj)
• Spanish: coqueto (es)
• Swedish: kokett (sv)
• Tagalog: malandi, malantong, hitad, kiri