coquet
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 17
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 6
Definition of coquet
6 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A flirtatious female; a coquette.
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noun
- A flirtatious female; a coquette.
- (obsolete)A flirtatious male.
verb
- To act as a flirt or coquet.
- To waste time; to dally.
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To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint; to lead on.
“November 26, 1725, Jonathan Swift, letter to Alexander Pope You [are] coquetting a maid of honour.”
name
- A river in Northumberland, England, which flows into the North Sea at Amble; in full, the River Coquet.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from French coquet (“little cockerel”), from coq (“cockerel”) + -et (“masculine diminutive suffix”).
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