Definition of "flirt" in Anglais

noun

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

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

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

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.

verb

1. (transitive) 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

2. (archaic, intransitive) To jeer at; to mock.

3. (intransitive) To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.

4. (transitive) To blurt out.

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

6. (intransitive) To experiment, or tentatively engage, with; to become involved in passing with.

adjective

1. Flirtatious.