Meaning

3 senses

  1. To act as a flirt or coquet.

    kokettieren

  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.

More definitions
  • talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions

Translations

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By meaning 1
act as a flirt or coquet:

Origin

Borrowed from French coquet (“little cockerel”), from coq (“cockerel”) + -et (“masculine d

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

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Forms

coquets, coquetting, coquetted, coquetted
Base formcoquet · to coquet
3rd person singularcoquets
Present participlecoquetting
Past simplecoquetted
Past participlecoquetted

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycoquet
he, she, itcoquets

Past simpleLesson

all personscoquetted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave coquetted
he, she, ithas coquetted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill coquet

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relatedcoquetry
Derivedcoquettish

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

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