Coquetry

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Coquetry \Co*quet"ry\, n.; pl. {Coquetries}. [F. coquetterie.]
     Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere
     gratification of vanity; trifling in love. "Little
     affectations of coquetry." --Addison.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  coquetry
       n : playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest [syn: {flirt},
            {flirting}, {flirtation}, {dalliance}, {toying}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "coquetry":
     amorous looks, come-hither look, coquettish glances,
     coquettishness, coyness, dabbling, dalliance, dallying, fiddling,
     flirtation, flirtatiousness, fooling, fooling around, goo-goo eyes,
     idling, jerking off, kidding around, loitering, messing around,
     monkeying, monkeying around, ogle, piddling, playing,
     playing around, pottering, puttering, smattering, tinkering,
     toying, trifling