flirt

Substantiv

1. 1

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

   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

2. 2

   Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person.

   '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.'

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

3. 3

   An act of flirting.

4. 4

   A tentative or brief, passing engagement with something.

   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.

   However, the later rabbinic Law demands from a Jew who wishes to return to Judaism after a flirt with another religion, to go through giyur, conversion requirements, like any Gentile who wishes to enter the Covenant of Israel.

5. 5

   A brief shower (of rain or snow).

   In the course of the month, there were three flirts of snow, […]

   [page 59:] A flirt of snow; after which, mild and pleasant weather, (with occasional showers) continued through the remainder of the month. [page 220:] The medium temperature of this month was 45, and it produced much mild and pleasant weather, interspersed with some rainy days, and a few flirts of snow, and frosty nights.

   ... and we still trusted to accomplish the Malnitzer Pass on the morrow. Our hopes fell to zero as during the night an ominous wind howled over the roof, and shook our casements furiously. Morning broke with chilling flirts of rain.

   But joy came in the morning : first a glimpse of blue sky between the flirts of rain, then a sign of the sun. The river was reported to be rapidly filling — never mind, unlucky Friday has passed by, and we may look for better things on Saturday.

6. 6

   Russula vesca, an edible woodland mushroom.

Verb

1. 1

   To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.

   They flirt water in each other's faces.

   to flirt a glove, or a handkerchief

   The carpenter himself, going with another man to furl the main-top-gallant-sail in a squall, was nearly pushed from the rigging by an unseen hand; and his shipmate swore that a wet hammock was flirted in his face.

   She laughed […] while she flirted a soiled pocket-handkerchief at him.

2. 2

   altertümlichTo jeer at; to mock.

   I am ashamed; I am scorned; I am flirted.

   Asinius Pollio[…], having written many invectives against Plancus, staid untill he were dead to publish them. It was rather to flurt at a blind man, and raile in a dead mans eare, and to offend a senselesse man, than incurre the danger of his revenge.

3. 3

   To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.

   Her skirt flirted around her knees like a flower petal.

4. 4

   To blurt out.

   Chatterer flirted his tale in the saucy way he has, and his eyes twinkled.

5. 5

   To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way.

   Of course, the young people flirted, for that diversion is apparently irradicable even in the "best society".

   Dr Hutchinson, who told jurors that he had been married for 37 years and that his son was a policeman, said he enjoyed flirting with the woman, was flattered by her attention and was anticipating patting her bottom again - but had no intention of seducing her.

6. 6

   To experiment, or tentatively engage, with; to become involved in passing with.

   I've thrown away my reputation, self-respect, money, health and happiness through the use of drugs and alcohol; I can teach her how fragile a reputation is, how a fool and their money are soon parted, and how dangerous it is to flirt with drugs.

   The various episodes of thinkers flirting with the idea of an infinite universe, starting with early Greek speculations and running through Cusa in the Renaissance, came to fruition as a central element in the Scientific Revolution.

Adjektiv

1. 1

   Flirtatious.

   He had “large dark blue eyes, wide open, very coquet, very flirt in the way he looked at you.”

   Now Maggie knew that he was flirt and for the most part it didn't bother her when he flirted with other girls because she knew that at the end of the day she was the one that he would end up kissing.

   You know I've been very flirt with girls.

Formen

Plural

flirts

Präteritum

flirted

Partizip II

flirted

Partizip I

flirting

3. Person Singular

flirts