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Playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest
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flirtation
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest [syn: flirt , flirting , coquetry , dalliance , toying ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE brief ▪ A brief flirtation with the Communist Party - done mainly to shock, he supposed. mild ▪ She had enjoyed the camaraderie of colleagues, and the mild flirtation which often underlay it. ▪ Constanze was clearly ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flirtation \Flir*ta"tion\, n. 1. Playing at courtship; coquetry. The flirtations and jealousies of our ball rooms. --Macaulay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"amorous trifling; giddy behavior," 1718, noun of action from flirt (v.) as though Latin.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Playing at courtship; coquetry.
Usage examples of flirtation.
Attuned to flirtation and dalliance as due an Absarokee warrior, he easily accepted the multitude of female favors cast in his direction.
Then the driver, having completed his mandatory flirtation with the bucktooth waitress, gave the bus horn a sharp blast.
Stateside club for World War II fighter pilots, to its freewheeling terror tactics of the early sixties, to its absurd flirtation with the hippie scene, to its ultimate search for a legitimate role in the contemporary world of organized crime.
Don Juanism as a tragic flirtation between death and the illusion of the eternal, enacted in the repeated pursuit of an evanescent sexual fullness.
You can trace his original attitude, when he was diagnosed with diabetes in 1950, at age 19, to his early flirtation with Kierkegaardian existentialism.
The excitement therefore that Sibley had formerly received from Cognac, he now sought to obtain by pursuing with greater ardor his flirtation with Ida.
Probably that was one reason Hanna respected Bayan, despite his annoying admiration of herscarcely possible to call it a flirtation, given the chasm between their stationsthat might well send her to her death.
Cassiopeia, furious at her own Galanthis's flirtations with her daughter, was nagging him Cepheus again with Ammon-oracles fishy as the first.
Gossip, flirtations, negotiations, assignations, betrayals, confidences—the highborn, ranked and wealthy, all danced their dances just as they had for years, as their fathers' had, and as their grandfathers had.
Though all their flirtations had been carried on on both sides palpably by way of fun, though Frank had told himself ten times a day that his heart was true to Mary Thorne, yet he had an undefined feeling that it behoved Miss Dunstable to be a little in love with him.
I suddenly perceived that she saw her constant belittlement and stings as a sort of flirtation.
Russia has been back under the thumb of the apparatchiks for fifteen years now, its brief flirtation with anarchocapitalism replaced by Brezhnevite dirigisme and Putinesque puritanism, and it's no surprise that the wall's crumbling – but it looks like they haven't learned anything from the current woes afflicting the United States.
He was describing a phenomenon known as eroticised hanging or autoerotic asphyxia, one of the more arcane sexual kinks, custom-designed for those who consider flirtation with death an enhancement to orgasm.
They try to get up flirtations, and put one to the blush by the things they say, and—oh, you know, Frederica!
He'd ignored, evaded or moved in on flirtations often enough to recognize one.