coquetry

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒkɪtɹi/|/ˈkəʊkətɹi/    美 /ˈkoʊkətɹi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Coquettish behaviour; actions designed to excite erotic attention, without intending to reciprocate such feelings (chiefly of women towards men); flirtatious teasing. countable,uncountable
    — With a lover […] her sensibility will naturally lead her to endeavour to excite emotion, not to gratify her vanity, but her heart. This I do not allow to be coquetry, it is the artless impulse of nature […]
  2. An act constituting such behaviour; an affectation of amorous interest or enticement, especially of a woman directed towards a man. countable
    — The little coquetries, which are as natural to a gay young girl as her laughter, were all in full play, and had she gone no further no harm would have been done.

词形变化

coquetries plural coquettery alternative

词汇关系

近义词
flirtation

词源

From French coquetterie.
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