Flirt

Definition: Flirt

Flirt

Noun

1. A seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men.

2. Playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest.

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".

2. Behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a young girl's affection".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "flirt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Flirt \Flirt\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Flirted; Flirting.]. (references)

Literature

Multilingual Slang

FLIRT

Synonyms: Flirt

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.

Fop

Fine lady, coquette; flirt, vamp.

Love

Get into favor; ingratiate oneself, insinuate oneself, worm oneself; propitiate, curry favor with, pay one's court to, faire l'aimable, set one's cap at, flirt.

Flirt, coquette; amorette; pair of turtledoves; abode of love, agapemone.

Regression

Verb: propel, project, throw, fling, cast, pitch, chuck, toss, jerk, heave, shy, hurl; flirt, fillip.

Crosswords: Flirt

Albanian (flirtation), French (dalliance, flirtation, flirting), German (flirt, flirtation, lovemaking), Italian (flirtation), Romanian (dalliance, flirtation).

I'm not here to flirt. I'm here to study (Patch Adams; writing credit: Patch Adams; Maureen Mylander)

Love's cruel, Love's a flirt. Love has places to go and people to hurt ('Til There Was You; writing credit: Winnie Holzman)

Girls flirt with the dangerous guy, but they don't bring him homeI married a good guy. (X2; writing credit: Zak Penn; David Hayter)

Pimpin' here's a new way to flirt (Young'n; performing artist: Fabolous)

Gettin my flirt on, playa, ain't nuttin (Get Me Home; performing artist: FOXY)

Flirt with the hood rats then pop models (Put Ya Hands Up; performing artist: KISS)

Flirt se slecnou Stribrnou (1969)

Madame et son flirt (1945)

En Stilla flirt (1934)

The Naughty Flirt (1931)

When Husbands Flirt (1925)

Books

• The Little Book of Flirting: Seven Days to Being a Great Flirt (reference)

• 100 Fun and Fabulous Ways to Flirt With Your Spouse (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Flirt - Cd-rom (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Flirt (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Born to Flirt (reference)

• Flirt Soundtrack: A Film By Hal Hartley [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Hunter Douglas Sillouette Originale 2-inch Blind (up to 36" wide and 60" long), Linen Flirt (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

And then, to harness himself like a bully, and to strap himself up like a flirt, to wear a corset under a cuirass, is to be ridiculous twice over

He had done well to leave her to flirt with her priest, to toy with a church which was the scullerymaid of christendom

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

Beginning with "flirt": Flirt-gill.

Ending with "flirt": Gill-flirt, Jill-flirt.

Albanian

flirtoj (dally, philander), përkëdhel një ide, lëvizje e shpejtë (dart, dash, flight, scurry, whisk), hedhje (Bob, buck, cast, chuck, dart, dash, disposal, drop, fling, hop, hurl, jerk, launch, leap, lunge, lurch, pitch, pounce, precipitation, projection, put, skip, throw, throwing, toss), hedh përpjetë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏قذف بقوة (bang, belch, slap), ‏غازل (court, dally, make a pass at, make out, mash, pet, philander, spoon, sue), ‏حركة سريعة (dart, flick, flight, twinkle), ‏تدلل (coquet, flirtation, prim), ‏ضربة سريعة (quickie), ‏المغازل (philanderer, wooer), ‏العابث (fiddler), ‏أسرف (hand out, ladle, overindulgence, strain a point). (various references)

Bulgarian 

размахване (flourish, flourishing, waft, whisk), флиртувам (dally, gallant, gallivant, mash, philander, toy, vamp), флиртаджийка (jilt), тръскане (jolting, rumble-tumble), кокетка (coquette, jilt, kitten, minx, puss), връцкам, вея (blow, fan, flaunt, puff, winnow), бързо движение (dash, scud, touch and go, twinkle, twinkling, whisk), проявявам слаб интерес към. (various references)

Chinese 

調情 . (various references)

Czech

flirtovat (philander), koketovat (Coquet, philander). (various references)

Dutch

fladderen (flutter, flit). (various references)

Esperanto

flirti (flit, flutter), koketi. (various references)

Faeroese

flákra (flare, flare up, flit, flutter), fjasa (court, flit, flutter, woo). (various references)

Finnish

keimailla, keimailija (coquette), hakkailla (flit, flutter). (various references)

French

flirter (flit, flutter), voltiger (flit, flutter). (various references)

German

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

Greek 

φλερτάρω (coquette, flirt with), ερωτότροποσ (flirtatious, vamper), ερωτοτροπώ (court), τινάσσω (jerk, jiggle, joggle, jolt, shake, shock, toss, yank). (various references)

Hebrew 

מפלרטט (philanderer), למזמז (dissipate, dwindle, neck, soften), לפלרטט, לאהבהב (philander), להתמזמז (canoodle, dally, fool around, make out, neck, pet), להתנות אהבים (have an affair, make love), עוגבנית, אהבהב (flirtation, flirtation affair). (various references)

Hungarian

flörtöl (to coquet, to dally, to flirt), flört (flirtation), kacérkodik (to coquet, to flirt), kacér nõ (jilt), kacér nő (coquette, jilt). (various references)

Indonesian

bercumbu. (various references)

Italian

flirtare, filare (pay out), damerino (Dandy, fopling, ponce), civettare (Coquet, jilt), amoreggiamento, agitare (stir). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

軟派 (scam, scope, skirt chaser). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なんぱ (moderate party, scam, scope, shipwreck, skirt chaser, soft school), いちゃいちゃ (make out). (various references)

Manx

flid (fly-by-night, jilt, nitwit, silly person). (various references)

Norwegian

flørte. (various references)

Pig Latin

irtflay.(various references)

Portuguese

folgar (merry-make, play, rollick), flutuar (float, swim), flerte (flirtation), flertar (coquet, dally, philander), saracotear, sacudir (shake), sacudidela (backlash, flip, flounce, hitch, jar, jerk, jog, jolt, pluck, rumble-tumble, shake, wag, waggle, whisk), namorico (amourette, dalliance, flirtation), namorar (court, woo), menear (rock, shake, swing), esvoaçar (flick, flit, float, hover, mount, waver), entreter-se com, divertir-se (dally, disport oneself, enjoy, feast, frolic, fun, gambol, have fun, jollify, lark, merry-make, move, play, recreate, wassail), borboletear (flit). (various references)

Romanian

flirta (philander, play), se mişca repede, se juca (be, dally, fiddle, game, play, play upon, shy, twiddle with), persoanã care cocheteazã, mişcare rapidã (Bob, dart, spin), mişcare bruscã (dart, dash, fling, flounce, hitch), mişca iute, hurducare, da un bobârnac peste, cochetã (coquette, jilt, minx), aruncare (cast, casting, delivery, hurl, pitch, projection, shy, throw, throwing), agita (agitate, shake). (various references)

Russian 

флиртовать кокетка, флиртовать (philander), кокетка (coquette), кокетничать (coquet). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

flertovati (play footsie), koketa (coquette), ašikovati (philander). (various references)

Spanish

flirtear (philander, vamp). (various references)

Swedish

kokettera (coquet), flörta (philander). (various references)

Thai

เกี้ยวพาราสี, โผ, โยน (chuck), ทำเล่นๆ, คนเจ้าชู้ (ladies' man). (various references)

Turkish

flört etmek (date, go out, go together, go with, keep company with, philander, spoon, walk out with), flört (date, flirtation, wooing), fırlanmak, fırlamak (bolt, boom, bounce, break, burst, dart, dash, dodge, fling, fly off, fly out, goggle, high-tail, hurl oneself, hurtle, jump, leap up, make a dash, shoot, shoot ahead, shoot off, shoot out, shoot up, skyrocket, soar, spring, stand out, start, start up, steepen, tear, whip, whisk, zoom), sallanmak (be slung from, bear away, dawdle, dilly dally, dodder, flap, hang about, hang around, hang down, hang on, hover, keep oneself close, loiter, lurch, oscillate, quake, rock, shake, sway, swing, take a swing, teeter, toss, vibrate, waggle, wave, waver, wobble), sallamak (agitate, Bob, brandish, flap, flourish, jog, joggle, jolt, nod, rock, roll, shake, swing, switch, wag, waggle, wave), macera (adventure, affair, business, business deal, case, cloak-and-dagger, exploit, flirtation, gallantry, matter, romance), kur yapmak (court, make a pass at, pay court to, pay one's addresses to, pay one's attention to smb., pay one's court to, philander, pitch, rush, spark, Sue, woo), kur (addresses, attention, class, course, court, courtship, flirtation, par, pass, rate, rate of exchance, rush, suit, wooing), çapkın (amorist, chaser, debauchee, dissolute, flirtatious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, licentious, lothario, profligate, rake, rakish, rascal, rip, rogue, roguish, roue, vagabond, varlet, villain, wolf, womanizer), çıkmak (ascend, break out, break through, climb, come about, come off, come on, come out, come to a head, come up, crop out, date, date up, detach, drop out, emanate, emerge, erupt, escalate, eventuate, exit, extricate oneself, extrude, get off, go for, go forth, go off, go out, go together, go with, grow out of, grow up, hatch, have it's source in, issue, jut, jut out, keep company with, knock about, knock around, launch, launch out, move out, occur, originate, peep, peep out, photograph, point, present oneself, prove, puff out, puff up, pull out, pullulate, quit, rise, rub off, rub out, sally forth, sally out, secede, separate, shoot out, spoon, spring, stem, step out, step up, stick, stick out, take it's source from, take out, take to, walk out, walk out of, walk out with, well forth, work out). (various references)

Turkmen 

nдzirgemek (be capricious). (various references)

Ukrainian

фліртувати (gallivant, play around), кокетка (coquette, jilt, minx, puss), змах (stroke, switch, waft), підштовхувати (boost, hitch, rattle through). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự giật (pluck, pull), người thích được tán tỉnh, người tán tỉnh người thích được ve vãn, cái giật người ve vãn. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "flirt": flirtation, flirtations, flirtatious, flirtatiously, flirtatiousness, flirtatiousnesses, flirted, flirter, flirters, flirtier, flirtiest, flirting, flirts, flirty. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Flirt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fairt, filaret, filr, Fitr, flart, fleart, flegt, flert, flict, fliht, flipt, flir, flire, flirk, flirp, flitt, floit. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: flit, frit, lift, rift, tirl.

-2 letters: fil, fir, fit, lit, rif, til.

-3 letters: if, it, li, ti.

+1 letter: filter, flirts, flirty, lifter, trifle.

+2 letters: airlift, fertile, filbert, filters, firelit, firstly, flirted, flirter, flitter, florist, floruit, flutier, flytier, frailty, lifters, loftier, stifler, trefoil, trifled, trifler, trifles, trifold.

+3 letters: airlifts, craftily, draftily, faultier, featlier, fewtrils, filature, filberts, filister, filtered, filterer, filthier, filtrate, fistular, flatiron, flichter, flintier, flirters, flirtier, flirting, flitters, floatier, florists, floruits, fluorite, flytiers, forklift, frailest, frostily, frothily, fruitful, fruitily, fruitlet, inflater, inflator, mirthful, refilter, riftless, rightful, stiflers, taffrail, trainful, trefoils, triflers, trifling, trifocal, tristful, turflike, uplifter.