flirt
IPA: fɫˈɝt
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.
- A tentative or brief, passing engagement with something.
- (dialectal) A brief shower (of rain or snow).
- (with "the") Russula vesca, an edible woodland mushroom.
verb
- (transitive) To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.
- (archaic, intransitive) To jeer at; to mock.
- (intransitive) To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.
- (transitive) To blurt out.
- (intransitive) To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way.
- (intransitive) To experiment, or tentatively engage, with; to become involved in passing with.
adjective
- Flirtatious.
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Examples of "flirt" in Sentences
- The origin of the word flirt is obscure.
- I agree that the article flirts with tedium.
- The two flirt and end up spending the night together.
- It was the first of his designs to flirt with the gothic style.
- He also flirts outrageously with the Mayor's wife and daughter.
- Amal and Adam enjoyed their comradeship, and occasionally they flirt.
- The Shitennou are sent to flirt with the Senshi to make them distracted.
- The exact opposite of Karan, Vicky is an extrovert and a notorious flirt.
- Calaveras is the only sister in the manga who Rubeus appears to flirt with.
- He was engaged to the eldest daughter and flirting constantly with the youngest.
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