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verb

Flirt v. t. (past & past part. flirted; pres. part. flirting)

To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.

To toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan.

To jeer at; to treat with contempt; to mock. (Obs.) "I am ashamed; I am scorned; I am flirted."

Flirt v. i.

To run and dart about; to act with giddiness, or from a desire to attract notice; especially, to play the coquette; to play at courtship; to coquet; as, they flirt with the young men.

To utter contemptuous language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe. (Obs.)

noun

Flirt n.

A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer. "Several little flirts and vibrations." "With many a flirt and flutter."

One who flirts; esp., a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl. "Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world."

adjective

Flirt adj. Pert; wanton. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Flirt'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flirt" Quotes from Famous Books

... young and old were standing up, and making themselves happy beneath the starlight and the glimmer of the dozen ship-lamps which had been hung around. On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed ...

— John Caldigate • Anthony Trollope

... indignantly. "Both of us. You shan't go out with her alone. She is a terrible flirt, and very pretty. Where you and she ...

— Eve to the Rescue • Ethel Hueston

... trees once grew beside a running brook: An Alder, one, of unassuming mien: His mate, a Poplar, who, with lofty look, Wore, with a rustling flirt, his robe of green. With pompous front the Poplar mounted high, And curried converse with each swelling breeze; While Alder seemed content to live and die A lowly shrub among ...

— The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses • J. C. Manning

... and put his back to it. Then he softly said, "You've come home and taken my liquor; you flirt with my sister, and you're going away without leaving so much as a bit of gold. I'm not such a fool as Blackey. I know your aunt. I can send a newspaper to her address, and cook your goose. Suppose I make a row. I can do that, and we'll both be taken up for brawling outside a house of ill-fame. ...

— The Chequers - Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in - a Loafer's Diary • James Runciman

... "laterals," laid from eight to twelve feet apart, as they would be laid for draining a field. These branch lines may be laid at an angle to the main trunk as may be most convenient; all the joints must be covered so as to keep out the flirt. The whole system should be laid deep enough in the ground to be secure from frost; but to be most effective it should not be over fourteen to sixteen inches below the surface, hence sub-irrigation cannot be used very successfully in the Northern states. In ...

— Three Acres and Liberty • Bolton Hall

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