flirt

A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion

several little flirts and vibrations

with many a flirt and flutter

Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person.

'Oooh, don't.' Lilly staggered behind the counter. 'Hangover from hell. We had a good time, I think. He's such a flirt though. He really fancied Midnight. Was sooo gutted that she was actually a straight man. Think it almost turned him celibate.'

Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world.

An act of flirting.

A tentative or brief, passing engagement with something.

However, after a brief flirt with socialist realism , this method was abandoned and strict controls were removed after 1948. By the early 1950s, writers had earned the right to use any method and to experiment.

Manufacturers are being stung into action on both sides of the Atlantic as climbers consult their lawyers after a flirt with gravity. Of course responsible manufacturers already exercise great care with all aspects of safety and testing.

A brief shower (of rain or snow).

In the course of the month, there were three flirts of snow, […]

[page 59:] A flirt of snow; after which, mild and pleasant weather, (with occasional showers) continued through the remainder of the month. [page 220:] The medium temperature of this month was 45, and it produced much mild and pleasant weather, interspersed with some rainy days, and a few flirts of snow, and frosty nights.

To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.

They flirt water in each other's faces.

to flirt a glove, or a handkerchief

To jeer at; to mock.

I am ashamed; I am scorned; I am flirted.

Asinius Pollio[…], having written many invectives against Plancus, staid untill he were dead to publish them. It was rather to flurt at a blind man, and raile in a dead mans eare, and to offend a senselesse man, than incurre the danger of his revenge.

To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.

Her skirt flirted around her knees like a flower petal.

To blurt out.

Chatterer flirted his tale in the saucy way he has, and his eyes twinkled.

To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way.

Of course, the young people flirted, for that diversion is apparently irradicable even in the "best society".

Dr Hutchinson, who told jurors that he had been married for 37 years and that his son was a policeman, said he enjoyed flirting with the woman, was flattered by her attention and was anticipating patting her bottom again - but had no intention of seducing her.

Flirtatious.

He had “large dark blue eyes, wide open, very coquet, very flirt in the way he looked at you.”

Now Maggie knew that he was flirt and for the most part it didn't bother her when he flirted with other girls because she knew that at the end of the day she was the one that he would end up kissing.