verb
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to behave flirtatiously
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to dally or trifle
Etymology
Origin of coquet
1685–95; < French; literally, cockerel, equivalent to coq cock + -et -et
Example Sentences
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A: I'm afraid I was a bit of a coquet in my youth, but now that I'm a grandmother with an 18-year-old granddaughter, I'm simplifying what I wear.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2010
You might almost as well coquet with a minister of the holy Gospel as with him you have selected to try your fascinations on.
From A Romantic Young Lady by Grant, Robert
Suckcess iz a coquet, and a bashful lover never wins her.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.
If she really loved him, would she coquet with him like this—would she so pretend?
From The Hoyden by Duchess
In the last century there lived a man who, in his young days, was a desperate coquet.
From Indian Story and Song from North America by Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham)
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