flirt

== English == === Etymology === 1553, from the merger of Early Modern English flirt (“to flick”), flurt (“to mock, jibe, scorn”), and flirt, flurt (“a giddy girl”). Of obscure origin and relation. Apparently related to similar words in Germanic, all of apparently onomatopoeic origin, compare Low German flirt (“a flick of the fingers, a light blow”), Low German flirtje (“a giddy girl”), Low German flirtje (“a flirt”), German Flittchen (“a flirt; tart; hussy”), Norwegian flira (“to giggle, titter”). Compare also Early Modern English jillflirt, gillian flirt, and flirt-gill (“a flirt”), and Scots flird (“a trifling", also, "to jibe, jeer at, talk idly, flirt, flaunt”), which is perhaps from Middle English flerd (“mockery, fraud, deception”), from Old English fleard (“nonsense, vanity, folly, deception”); potentially related to Icelandic flærð (“trickiness, deceit”), Swedish flärd (“vanity, frivolity, flamboyance”), Dutch flard (“tatter, shred”). See flird. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /flɜːt/ (US) IPA(key): /flɝt/ Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t === Noun === flirt (plural flirts) A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person. July 16, 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian No. 109 Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world. 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. ==== Translations ==== === Verb === flirt (third-person singular simple present flirts, present participle flirting, simple past and past participle flirted) (transitive) To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling. [from 16th c.] to flirt a glove, or a handkerchief (archaic, intransitive) To jeer at; to mock. [16th–18th c.] (intransitive) To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions. [from 16th c.] (transitive) To blurt out. [from 17th c.] (intransitive) To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way. [from 18th c.] Synonyms: see Thesaurus:flirt (intransitive) To experiment, or tentatively engage, with; to become involved in passing with. ==== Descendants ==== ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === flirt (not comparable) Flirtatious. === Derived terms === === See also === See also Thesaurus:flirt === References === == Catalan == === Etymology === Borrowed from English flirt. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈflirt] IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈfliɾt] === Noun === flirt m (plural flirts) flirtation === Noun === flirt m or f by sense (plural flirts) a person with whom one has a flirtation ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “flirt”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 == Dutch == === Pronunciation === === Verb === flirt inflection of flirten: first/second/third-person singular present indicative imperative == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from English flirt. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /flœʁt/ === Noun === flirt m (plural flirts) an episode of (or the act of) flirting ==== Related terms ==== flirter flirteur, flirteuse ==== Descendants ==== Turkish: flört === Further reading === “flirt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Italian == === Etymology === Pseudo-anglicism, derived from flirt. First attested in 1895. === Noun === flirt m (invariable) brief romantic relationship; flirtation; fling Synonym: amoreggiamento (figurative, by extension) passing interest person with whom one has a brief romantic relationship == Polish == === Etymology === Borrowed from English flirt. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈflirt/ Rhymes: -irt Syllabification: flirt === Noun === flirt m inan (diminutive flircik, related adjective flirtowy) flirt, flirtation, flirting, coquetry, hanky-panky (coquettish behavior; actions designed to excite erotic attention, without intending to reciprocate such feelings; flirtatious teasing) Synonym: kokieteria romance, affair, love affair, liaison, amour (usually adulterous relationship between people who are not married to each other) Synonyms: miłostka, romans (figurative) flirt (tentative or brief, passing engagement with something) [with genitive ‘of whom’ and z (+ instrumental) ‘with whom/what’] Synonym: romans ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === flirt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN flirt in Polish dictionaries at PWN === Anagrams === filtr == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from French flirt. === Noun === flirt n (plural flirturi) flirt ==== Declension ==== == Swedish == === Noun === flirt c alternative spelling of flört ==== Declension ====