Meaning

A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion.

Definitions by Sense

1. A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion
2. Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person.
3. An act of flirting.
4. A tentative or brief, passing engagement with something.
5. (dialectal) A brief shower (of rain or snow).
6. (with "the") Russula vesca, an edible woodland mushroom.
7. (transitive) To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.
8. (archaic, intransitive) To jeer at; to mock.

Example Sentences

several little flirts and vibrations

with many a flirt and flutter

an angry hectic in each cheek, a fierce flirt of her fan, and two or three short sniffs that betokened mischief

Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world.

'Oooh, don't.' Lilly staggered behind the counter. 'Hangover from hell. We had a good time, I think. He's such a flirt though. He really fancied Midnight. Was sooo gutted that she was actually a straight man. Think it almost turned him celibate.'

However, after a brief flirt with socialist realism , this method was abandoned and strict controls were removed after 1948. By the early 1950s, writers had earned the right to use any method and to experiment.

Manufacturers are being stung into action on both sides of the Atlantic as climbers consult their lawyers after a flirt with gravity. Of course responsible manufacturers already exercise great care with all aspects of safety and testing.

Only two years older than André, this bespectacled bookworm had, after a flirt with the surrealists, settled down as the editor of Gallimard's literary monthly, Nouvelle Revue Française, better known by its acronym NRF.

Word Forms

• flirts
• flirting
• flirted

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