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
If you are so inclined, you play low, and coquet with fortune, or if lavishly given, you throw the reins loose and go free.
From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
His Letters shew him to have lived in a continual fever of petty vanity, and to have been a finished literary coquet.
From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney
The petty kings themselves began now to coquet with Tehrak, and to invite his co-operation in an attempt, which they promised they would make, to throw off the yoke of the Assyrians.
From Ancient Egypt by Rawlinson, George
She laugh and make the mock at him, and play coquet with the others before his face.
From Roger Ingleton, Minor by Reed, Talbot Baines
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