Coquet

Definition: Coquet

Coquet

Verb

1. Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women".

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Date "coquet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Coquet

Affectation

Verb: affect, act a part, put on; give oneself airs; (arrogance); boast; coquet; simper, mince, pose; flirt a fan; overact, overdo.

Endearment

Bill and coo, spoon, toy, dally, flirt, coquet; gallivant, galavant; philander; make love; pay one's court to, pay one's addresses to, pay one's attentions to; serenade; court, woo; set one's cap at; be sweet upon, look sweet upon; ogle, cast sheep's eyes upon; faire les yeux doux.

Falsehood

Dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe; play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a part; affect; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes are sour.

Flattery

Verb: flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of, pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one;s bent; lick the dust.

Irresolution

Verb: be irresolute; Adjective: hang in suspense, keep in suspense; leave "ad referendum"; think twice about, pause; dawdle; (inactivity); remain neuter; dillydally, hesitate, boggle, hover, dacker, hum and haw, demur, not know one's own mind; debate, balance; dally with, coquet with; will and will not, chaser-balancer; go halfway, compromise, make a compromise; be thrown off one's balance, stagger like a drunken man; be afraid; let "I dare not" wait upon "I would"; falter, waver

Tergiversation

Trim, shuffle, play fast and loose, blow hot and cold, coquet, be on the fence, straddle, bold with the hare but run with the hounds; nager entre deux eaux; wait to see how the cat jumps, wait to see how the wind blows.

Crosswords: Coquet

French (coquettish, fashionable, pretty, stylish, tidy).

Books

• Crado coquet : mes plus belles années (reference)

• Evelyne Coquet raconte la Ragote, ses animaux et ses rêves (reference)

• Les sciences du langage en France au 20e siècle. (Contributions de Anscombre, J.C. & Barbault-Nogier, M.C., Arrivé, M., Bader, F., Calame-Griaule, G., Chevalier, J.C., Coquet, J.C., Dabene, L., Desclés, J.P., François, D. & F., Hamon, P., Hécaen, H. & Mar (reference)

• Memoirs of a coquet; [or, The history of Miss Harriot Airy (reference)

• Reform'd Coquet (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "coquet": coquet with. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏تغنج, ‏تتدلل, ‏تعبث في الحب, ‏تدلل (flirt, flirtation, prim), ‏المغناج (coquette). (various references)

Bulgarian 

Кокетнича, Флиртувам. (various references)

Czech

Koketovat (flirt, philander). (various references)

French

Coqueter. (various references)

German

flirten (flirt, flirtation, flit, flutter, gallivant, mash, philander, to coquet, to flirt, to mash). (various references)

Greek 

Ερωτοτροπώ. (various references)

Hungarian

Kacérkodik (flirt, to coquet, to flirt). (various references)

Indonesian

bermain mata. (various references)

Italian

Civettare (flirt, jilt), Scherzare (dally, frolic, jest, joke, kid, play, trifle, wanton), Fare La Civetta. (various references)

Pig Latin

oquetcay.(various references)

Portuguese

pavonear-se (parade, peacock, prance, prank, strut, swagger), namorador (beau, philanderer), galantear (court, dally, gallant, philander, woo), galanteador (dangler, do-naught, good-for-nothing, kittenish, lady-killer, laggard, masher, philanderer, wooer), galã (leading man), flertar (dally, flirt, philander), brincar (fool, frisk, frolic, fun, gambol, have a good time, jape, jest, joke, josh, kid, lark, play, romp, toy, trifle). (various references)

Russian 

кокетничать (dally, flirt). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

koketirati. (various references)

Spanish

jugar (gamble, game, joy, move, play, play about, play around, play at, sport, toy), jugado. (various references)

Swedish

kokettera (flirt). (various references)

Thai

ยั่วยวน (gagging for it, seduce). (various references)

Turkish

cilve yapmak, nazlanmak, hafife almak (consider unimportant, disdain, extenuate, piddle, slight, soft pedal, trifle, trifle with, underestimate, undervalue), fingirdemek, önemsememek (be oblivious to, close one's eyes to, discount, disregard, have a low opinion of, ignore, make light of, make little of, make nothing of, not to care twopence for, pay no attention, piss on smth., play down, play it low down, set at naught, set at nought, slight, slur over, toy, treat smb. like dirt, trifle, trifle with). (various references)

Ukrainian

кокетувати (gallant), поверхово займатися. (various references)

Vietnamese 

l� m dáng (coquettish), l� m đỏm, dáng (air, make, port, presence), đỏm. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "coquet": coquetries, coquetry, coquets, coquette, coquetted, coquettes, coquetting, coquettish, coquettishly, coquettishness, coquettishnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Coquet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: boquet, Caqueta, Choque, Choquel, coget, cogit, coket, coquart, coquat, Coque, coquete, coquett, coqui. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: quote, toque.

-2 letters: cote, cute.

-3 letters: cot, cue, cut, ecu, out, toe.

-4 letters: et, oe, to, ut.

+1 letter: coquets, croquet.

+2 letters: coequate, conquest, coquetry, coquette, cotquean, croquets.

+3 letters: coequated, coequates, conquests, coquetted, coquettes, cotqueans, croqueted, croquette.

+4 letters: coequality, coequating, consequent, coquetries, coquetting, coquettish, croqueting, croquettes, equivocate, quercitron, reconquest.

+5 letters: cinquecento, consequents, corequisite, discotheque, equinoctial, equivocated, equivocates, equivocator, loquacities, preconquest, quercitrons, reconquests.