coquet

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A flirtatious female; a coquette.
  2. A flirtatious male. obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To act as a flirt or coquet.
  2. To waste time; to dally.
  3. 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.

词形变化

coquets plural coquets present,singular,third-person coquetting participle,present coquetted participle,past coquetted past

词汇关系

衍生词
coquettish

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from French coquet (“little cockerel”), from coq (“cockerel”) + -et (“masculine diminutive suffix”).
词源 2
Borrowed from French coquet (“little cockerel”), from coq (“cockerel”) + -et (“masculine diminutive suffix”).
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