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flirt

/flurt/US // flɜrt //UK // (flɜːt) //

调戏,调情,骚动,逗趣

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to court triflingly or act amorously without serious intentions; play at love; coquet.
    • : to trifle or toy, as with an idea: She flirted with the notion of buying a sports car.
    • : to move with a jerk or jerks; dart about: butterflies flirting from flower to flower.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to give a sudden or brisk motion to; wave smartly, as a fan.
    • : to throw or propel with a toss or jerk; fling suddenly.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also flirter. a person who is given to flirting.
    • : a quick throw or toss; sudden jerk or darting motion.

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Examples

  • The girls were so blasé about the men who came in to flirt with them—I mean genuinely blasé.

  • And Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest would openly flirt with each other on American Idol?

  • One will not know until the next round—the quarterfinals—when this mediocre Brazil team will once again flirt with defeat.

  • So too the many variations on its theme, each fueled by our limitless urge to flirt.

  • “You look like Dave Pirner,” she said to him, meaning the remark to sound like a small insult, but also a flirt.

  • I like him, said Dinah; he doesnt flirt with the girls; he always talks to the old ladies.

  • One can walk, flirt and dance in a Merveilleuse costume, but it is next to impossible to sit down in it.

  • Don't flirt with him,—that isn't the rle, but talk kindly to him, and thereby find out all you can about the Everett bunch.

  • That confounded money-eating little flirt of a Pansy will give me the royal shake the moment she gets wise.

  • There is something in his eye and the expressive flirt of his tail that seems to suggest strange doings.