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Webster 1913 Edition
Coquet
Co-quet′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Coquetted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Coquetting
.] 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.
You are
coquetting
a maid of honor. Swift.
Co-quet′
,Verb.
I.
To trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest; to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to play (with);
as, we have
. coquetted
with political crimeWebster 1828 Edition
Coquet
COQUET
, COQUETTE,Noun.
The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, and sport and flutter in the fields of air.
Note. In French, coquet is masculine and coquette feminine; but as our language has no such termination for gender, it may be better to write coquet for both sexes, and for distinction prefix male to the word when applied to a man.
Definition 2024
coquet
coquet
English
Noun
coquet (plural coquets)
- A flirtatious female; a coquette.
- (obsolete) A flirtatious male.
Verb
coquet (third-person singular simple present coquets, present participle coquetting, simple past and past participle coquetted)
- To act as a flirt or coquet.
- To waste time; to dally.
- 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.
- Jonathan Swift
- You are coquetting a maid of honour.
- Jonathan Swift
Derived terms
Translations
act as a flirt or coquet
|
Dutch
Adjective
coquet (comparative coquetter, superlative coquetst)
- Superseded spelling of koket.
Inflection
| Inflection of coquet | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | coquet | |||
| inflected | coquette | |||
| comparative | coquetter | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | coquet | coquetter | het coquetst het coquetste |
|
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | coquette | coquettere | coquetste |
| n. sing. | coquet | coquetter | coquetste | |
| plural | coquette | coquettere | coquetste | |
| definite | coquette | coquettere | coquetste | |
| partitive | coquets | coquetters | — | |
Usage notes
- The spelling coquet was deprecated in 1996 in the new Groene Boekje (“Little Green Book”) spelling reform.