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flirt
/flɚt/
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What does flirt mean?
noun
- A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion
- Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person.
- An act of flirting.
More meanings (11)
noun
- A tentative or brief, passing engagement with something.
- A brief shower (of rain or snow).
- Russula vesca, an edible woodland mushroom.
verb
- To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.
- To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.
- To blurt out.
- To play at courtship; to talk with light affection, to imply sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way.
- To experiment, or tentatively engage, with; to become involved in passing with.
- (archaic) To jeer at; to mock.
adjective
- Flirtatious.
proper noun
- A subvariant of the Omicron variant, scientifically known as KP.2 and KP.1.1.
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IPA pronunciation
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And he stood without stirring—almost without drawing his breath—until the robin gave another flirt to his wings and flew away.
If a man could not love and be wise, surely he could flirt and be wise at the same time?
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Would a nice girl, even allowing for her being a little American flirt, make a rendezvous with a presumably low-lived foreigner?
He dressed his plumage, polished his beak, and when he felt fine and in full toilet he began to flirt with himself.
A jay would alight in the entrance of the hole and flirt and peer and attitudinize, and then flyaway crying "Thief, thief, thief!"