coquette

Etymology

Borrowed from French coquette.

noun

  1. A woman who flirts or plays with men's affections.
    I was playing with him, leading him on, sending him messages of encouragement then turning away from him. I was a tease, a coquette. 1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage (1998), page 141
  2. Any hummingbird in the genus Lophornis

verb

  1. Alternative form of coquet
    Nobber has no small opinion of himself: he considers himself the Adonis of the Pondaati eleven, and he contemplates society as though it were Venus, and it was his mission to posturize before it, and coquette and toy with it. 1875, Herbert Eastwick Compton, Semi-tropical trifles

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