flirt

1. 1

   A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion

   • several little flirts and vibrations
   • with many a flirt and flutter
2. 2

   Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person.

   • Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world.
3. 3

   An act of flirting.

4. 4

   A tentative or brief, passing engagement with something.

   • However, after a brief flirt with socialist realism , this method was abandoned and strict controls were removed after 1948. By the early 1950s, writers had earned the right to use any method and to experiment.
   • Manufacturers are being stung into action on both sides of the Atlantic as climbers consult their lawyers after a flirt with gravity. Of course responsible manufacturers already exercise great care with all aspects of safety and testing.
5. 5

   A brief shower (of rain or snow).dialectal

   • In the course of the month, there were three flirts of snow, […]
   • ... and we still trusted to accomplish the Malnitzer Pass on the morrow. Our hopes fell to zero as during the night an ominous wind howled over the roof, and shook our casements furiously. Morning broke with chilling flirts of rain.
6. 6

   Russula vesca, an edible woodland mushroom.with-definite-article

1. 1

   To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.transitive

   • They flirt water in each other's faces.
   • to flirt a glove, or a handkerchief
2. 2

   To jeer at; to mock.archaicintransitive

   • I am ashamed; I am scorned; I am flirted.
3. 3

   To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.intransitive

   • Her skirt flirted around her knees like a flower petal.
4. 4

   To blurt out.transitive

   • Chatterer flirted his tale in the saucy way he has, and his eyes twinkled.
5. 5

   To play at courtship; to talk with light affection, to imply sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way.intransitive

   • Of course, the young people flirted, for that diversion is apparently irradicable even in the "best society".
6. 6

   To experiment, or tentatively engage, with; to become involved in passing with.intransitive

   • The various episodes of thinkers flirting with the idea of an infinite universe, starting with early Greek speculations and running through Cusa in the Renaissance, came to fruition as a central element in the Scientific Revolution.

syn. charm · come on to · coquet · dally · fool around · gallivant · get fresh · hit on · make a move on · make an advance · make eyes at · play the field

ant. belittle · cockblock

1. 1

   Flirtatious.not-comparable

   • He had “large dark blue eyes, wide open, very coquet, very flirt in the way he looked at you.”
   • Now Maggie knew that he was flirt and for the most part it didn't bother her when he flirted with other girls because she knew that at the end of the day she was the one that he would end up kissing.