Another word for flirt
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Verb
To make amorous advances without serious intentions
- Something of little importance or value.
- A small amount; a jot.
- A dessert typically consisting of plain or sponge cake soaked in sherry, rum, or brandy and topped with layers of jam or jelly, custard, and whipped cream.
- An object for a child to play with.
- Something that provides amusement:
- A small ornament; a bauble.
- To play amorously; flirt:
- To consider or occupy oneself with something in a careless or unserious fashion; toy.
- To dawdle, delay, or linger:
- To engage in coquetry; flirt.
- To trifle; dally.
To treat lightly or flippantly
- Something of little importance or value.
- A small amount; a jot.
- A dessert typically consisting of plain or sponge cake soaked in sherry, rum, or brandy and topped with layers of jam or jelly, custard, and whipped cream.
- An object for a child to play with.
- Something that provides amusement:
- A small ornament; a bauble.
- To occupy oneself in an activity for amusement or recreation:
- To take part in a sport or game:
- To participate in betting; gamble.
- To play amorously; flirt:
- To consider or occupy oneself with something in a careless or unserious fashion; toy.
- To dawdle, delay, or linger:
Noun
A woman who is given to flirting
- The upper part of a boot or shoe covering the instep and sometimes extending over the toe.
- Something patched up or refurbished.
- Something rehashed, as a book based on old material.
- A woman who regularly makes romantic or sexual overtures; a flirt.
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Another word for flirt
Noun
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- A man considered to be extremely attractive to women.
- A kitchen utensil for mashing vegetables or fruit.
- A man who habitually makes aggressive, unwelcome sexual advances to women.
- Any of several carnivorous mammals of the genus Canis, especially the gray wolf of northern regions, that typically live and hunt in packs.
- The fur of such an animal.
- Any of various similar or related mammals, such as the hyena.
- A person who is in a romantic relationship in order to get money or gifts from the romantic partner, especially a woman seeking to marry a rich man.
- A silly, scatterbrained, or garrulous person.
- Lascivious or promiscuous. Used especially of women.
- Exciting or expressing sexual desire:
- Marked by unprovoked, gratuitous maliciousness; capricious and unjust:
- A female fox.
- A woman regarded as quarrelsome or ill-tempered.
- The upper part of a boot or shoe covering the instep and sometimes extending over the toe.
- Something patched up or refurbished.
- Something rehashed, as a book based on old material.
- A usually sexually alluring woman who repeatedly seduces or manipulates others.
- A woman who seduces.
- a person or thing that seduces; esp., a man who seduces a woman sexually
- Changing or varying, especially often and without discernible pattern or reason.
- Fickle; faithless.
- One who plays at courtship; a fickle lover; a flirt (usually applies only to men).
- a pewterer, who produced small pewter utensils, like saltcellars.
- A device in which compressed air or steam is driven against a rotating perforated disk to create a loud, often wailing sound as a signal or warning.
- An electronic device producing a similar sound as a signal or warning:
- Any of several slender aquatic salamanders of the family Sirenidae of eastern North America, having external gills, small forelimbs, and no hind limbs.
- One that causes sorrow, grief, or disappointment:
- A narrow or last-minute defeat.
- To make fun of (someone) playfully or taunt annoyingly:
- To say in a playful or mocking way:
- To provoke or irritate, as with physical movements:
- A woman who regularly makes romantic or sexual overtures; a flirt.
Verb
To pay amorous attentions to
- (idiomatic) to mislead, to try to make someone believe a lie.
- (idiomatic) to encourage with the illusion of a romantic relationship.
- (informal) To make a romantic or sexual advance to; to hit on.
- To make fun of (someone) playfully or taunt annoyingly:
- To say in a playful or mocking way:
- To provoke or irritate, as with physical movements:
- To have a sexual affair with someone who is not one's spouse or partner. Used especially of a man.
- To have many casual sexual affairs. Used especially of a man.
- To flirt. Used especially of a man.
- Used other than as an idiom: play with.
- To fiddle with; make small adjustments to, for example to something mechanical in order to improve its performance.
- To trick.
- To look or stare at, especially in a desirous manner.
- To look or stare, especially desirously.
- A sustained look or stare, especially a desirous one.
- To engage in coquetry; flirt.
- To trifle; dally.
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