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单词 coquet
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Definition of coquet in English:

coquet

verb kɒˈkɛtkoʊˈkɛt
[no object]rare
  • Behave flirtatiously; flirt.

    from the day I first met you I felt that you were coquetting with me
    figurative for a while he coquetted with engineering
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She loves Worthy, whom she pretends to dislike, and coquets with him for twelve months.
    • When no small number of British bourgeois politicians were coquetting with Hitler, looking upon him as a potential ally against the Soviet Union, Trotsky summed up the significance of Nazism.
    • Though my aunt forever encouraged us to coquet with one another, I don't believe there was any sort of attraction between us.
    • He seems fond of coqueting with the House of Commons, and is perpetually calling the Speaker out to dance a minuet with him, before he begins.
    • Boris, in his working clothes of white canvas, scraped the traces of clay and red modeling wax from his handsome hands, and coquetted over his shoulder with the Cupid.
    • She flirts with one and coquets with another till I believe she will be forsaken by all if she does not alter her conduct.
    • When he refers to robots or satellites there is none of the coquetting with techology we're accustomed to in sophisticated, quasi-scientific poetry now.
    • Bolingbroke and the more reckless Tories were coquetting with the son of King James II.
    • Do you think I am coquetting with your people in coming here?
    • These men are continually found, as public men and leaders, coquetting with any and every party which appears likely to aid them to office and power.
    • Sharon's rich, sensuous voice coquets above the piano, the drums, the bass.
    • When dressed as women, they painted their faces, chirruped with their lips, and coquetted.
    Synonyms
    womanize, have affairs affair, have an affair, flirt, dally with someone's affections, toy with someone's affections, trifle with someone's affections
noun kɒˈkɛtkoʊˈkɛt
dated
  • A man who flirts.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The greatest miracle of love is the reformation of a coquet.
    • Sure marriage, said I, is not sufficiently encouraged, or we should never behold such crowds of battered beaux and decayed coquets still attempting to drive a trade.
    • My brother is playing the coquet among the belles on Tunbridge walks.
    • Though I saw plainly, by this address, that I had got in with a coquet, my presiding star was not a whit out of my good graces for involving me in this adventure.
    • There is nothing more likely to cure a coquet than a good, strong, durable passion.

Origin

Early 17th century (as adjective in sense 'amorous'): from French coqueter (see coquetry).

 
 

Definition of coquet in US English:

coquet

verbkōˈketkoʊˈkɛt
[no object]rare
  • Behave flirtatiously; flirt.

    from the day I first met you I felt that you were coquetting with me
    figurative for a while he coquetted with engineering
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Boris, in his working clothes of white canvas, scraped the traces of clay and red modeling wax from his handsome hands, and coquetted over his shoulder with the Cupid.
    • She flirts with one and coquets with another till I believe she will be forsaken by all if she does not alter her conduct.
    • Though my aunt forever encouraged us to coquet with one another, I don't believe there was any sort of attraction between us.
    • When he refers to robots or satellites there is none of the coquetting with techology we're accustomed to in sophisticated, quasi-scientific poetry now.
    • Bolingbroke and the more reckless Tories were coquetting with the son of King James II.
    • She loves Worthy, whom she pretends to dislike, and coquets with him for twelve months.
    • He seems fond of coqueting with the House of Commons, and is perpetually calling the Speaker out to dance a minuet with him, before he begins.
    • These men are continually found, as public men and leaders, coquetting with any and every party which appears likely to aid them to office and power.
    • Sharon's rich, sensuous voice coquets above the piano, the drums, the bass.
    • Do you think I am coquetting with your people in coming here?
    • When dressed as women, they painted their faces, chirruped with their lips, and coquetted.
    • When no small number of British bourgeois politicians were coquetting with Hitler, looking upon him as a potential ally against the Soviet Union, Trotsky summed up the significance of Nazism.
    Synonyms
    womanize, have affairs affair, have an affair, flirt, dally with someone's affections, toy with someone's affections, trifle with someone's affections
nounkōˈketkoʊˈkɛt
dated
  • A man who flirts.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Though I saw plainly, by this address, that I had got in with a coquet, my presiding star was not a whit out of my good graces for involving me in this adventure.
    • The greatest miracle of love is the reformation of a coquet.
    • There is nothing more likely to cure a coquet than a good, strong, durable passion.
    • My brother is playing the coquet among the belles on Tunbridge walks.
    • Sure marriage, said I, is not sufficiently encouraged, or we should never behold such crowds of battered beaux and decayed coquets still attempting to drive a trade.

Origin

Early 17th century (as adjective in sense ‘amorous’): from French coqueter (see coquetry).

 
 
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