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coquetry

noun
/ˈkɒkɪtɹi/UK/ˈkoʊkətɹi/US

Etymology

From French coquetterie.

  1. derived from coquetterie

Definitions

  1. Coquettish behaviour

    Coquettish behaviour; actions designed to excite erotic attention, without intending to reciprocate such feelings (chiefly of women towards men); flirtatious teasing.

    • 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 act constituting such behaviour; an affectation of amorous interest or enticement, especially of a woman directed towards a man.

    • 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.
    • The mischievous pleasure of her coquetries was forgotten, and in a rush of glad confidence she felt a woman's pride in him.
    • "Her pretty little coquetries are like the gambols of a kitten.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at coquetry. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at coquetry. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at coquetry

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA