intransitive verb. To engage in coquetry; flirt.

intransitive verb. To trifle; dally.

See cocket and coquette.

To attempt, out of vanity, to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; entertain with compliments and amorous flattery; treat with an appearance of amorous tenderness.

To trifle in love; act the lover from vanity; endeavor to gain admirers.

Hence To trifle, in general; act without seriousness or decision.

transitive verb. To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint.

intransitive verb. To trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest; to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to play (with).

noun. A flirtatious female; a coquette.

noun. A flirtatious male.

verb. Act as a flirt or coquet.

verb. Waste time; dally.

verb. talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions

"Orlando undertook the defence of his sister with more zeal than prudence; but Mrs Rayland, though not to be convinced that Isabella was not a vain coquet, which indeed her unguarded gaiety gave the old Lady very good reason to believe, was however in a humour to be pleased with all Orlando said."

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