Flirt

Noun

 * 1) A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer.
 * 2) One who flirts; esp., a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:flirt

Verb

 * 1) 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.
 * 2) To toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan.
 * 1915 Burgess, Thornton W., The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel, Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, Ch. XXI:
 * 1) * Chatterer flirted his tale in the saucy way he has, and his eyes twinkled.
 * 2) To jeer at; to treat with contempt; to mock.
 * 3) To run about; to dart; to flit; to act with giddiness, or from a desire to attract notice.
 * 4) To play the coquette; to play at courtship; to coquet; as, they flirt with the young men.
 * 5) To utter contemptuous language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe.
 * 6) (figurative) to consider or contemplate

Adjective

 * 1) pert; wanton

Related terms

 * flirtatious

Adjectives for Flirt
saucy; harmless; wild.

Adverbs for Flirt
blatantly; shamelessly; saucily; wildly; outrageously; unconscionably; boldly; coyly; shyly; immodestly; voluptuously; arduously; impassionedly; trivially; desultorily.

Thesaurus
Circe, Don Juan, Lorelei, Parthenope, Siren, Sunday painter, allure, amateur, bait, bait the hook, beak, blandish, bob, brush, bunt, cajole, captive, cast coquettish glances, catch, charmer, chuck, coax, conquest, consider, contemplate, coquet, coquette, dab, dabble, dabbler, dallier, dally, date, decoy, dilettante, draw, draw in, draw on, enchanter, enchantress, ensnare, entertain, entice, enticer, eye, femme fatale, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddle-faddle, fidget with, fillip, finger with, flick, flip, flirt with, flounce, fool, fool around, fool with, fribble, frivol, gallivant, give the come-on, gold digger, gold-dig, graze, hitch, honey, horse around, hussy, idle, inveigle, inveigler, jerk, jerk off, jig, jigger, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, kid around, lady-killer, lead on, loiter, look sweet upon, lounge lizard, lure, make eyes at, masher, mess around, minx, monkey, monkey around, offer bait to, ogle, pat, peck, pet, philander, philanderer, pick, piddle, piddler, play, play around, play with, playboy, pluck, potter, potterer, putter, putterer, rap, rope in, run around, seduce, seducer, seductress, sheik, siren, smatter, smatterer, snake, snap, snatch, start, steady, string, strumpet, suck in, sudden pull, sweet patootie, sweetheart, sweetie, tantalize, tap, tease, teaser, tempter, temptress, think about, think of, tickle, tinker, tip, touch, toy, toy with, trifle, trifle with, trifler, tweak, twiddle, twitch, vamp, vampire, whisk, whore, wolf, woo, wrench, yank, yerk

Etymology
1553, from the merger of Early Modern English flirt:, flurt:, and flirt:, flurt:. Of obscure origin and relation. Apparently related to similar words in, compare flirt:,  flirtje:,  flirtje:,  Flirtchen:,  flira:. Perhaps from gill-flurt:, or an alteration of flird:, from  flerd:, from  fleard:. Compare flird:. See flird.

Noun

 * Finnish: sätky, viskaus


 * Finnish: flirttailija


 * : ligón, mariposón; ligona , coqueta

Verb

 * Finnish:, viskaista


 * Finnish: ,


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * Chinese: 挑逗 (tiáodòu)
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Irish:
 * Japanese: 戯れる
 * Russian: флиртовать,,  заигрывать


 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: флертовати
 * Roman: flertovati
 * Slovene:, ljubimkovati
 * Spanish: flirtear


 * : conter fleurette, flirter (5)
 * : flirten (5)
 * : flirtar


 * : (tiáoqíng)
 * : coquetear, galantear, seducir

Noun

 * 1) flirting