flirt
/flɚt/ verb C2- To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling. · They flirt water in each other's faces.· to flirt a glove, or a handkerchief
- 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.
He/she/it flirts · Past flirted · Past participle flirted · -ing form flirting
Verb forms
- Base form
- flirt
- He/she/it
- flirts
- Past
- flirted
- Past participle
- flirted
- -ing form
- flirting
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“I could love a man with dark and kind blue eyes, who is gentle and respectful to poor girls, who is handsome and good and does not try to flirt.
While there was an officer in Meryton, they would flirt with him; and while Meryton was within a walk of Longbourn, they would be going there for ever.
Her character will be fixed; and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself and her family ridiculous;--a flirt, too, in the worst and meanest degree of flirtation; without any attraction beyond youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorance and emptiness of her mind, wholly unable to ward off any portion of that universal contempt which her rage for admiration will excite.
At Brighton she will be of less importance even as a common flirt than she has been here.
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