Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A woman who makes teasing sexual or romantic overtures; a flirt.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A woman who endeavors to gain the admiration of men; a vain, selfish, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration and advances in love, for the gratification of her vanity; a flirt; a jilt.
- n. plural A group of crested humming-birds, of the genus Lophornis (which see).
- Coquettish; like a coquette.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.
- n. (Zoöl.) A tropical humming bird of the genus Lophornis, with very elegant neck plumes. Several species are known. See
Illustration under Spangle, v. t.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
- v. talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
Etymologies
- From French coquette. (Wiktionary)
- French, feminine of coquet, flirtatious man; see coquet. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“The word coquette does not come up to the mark; that of downright flirt seems to me to answer the purpose pretty well, and I can make use of it to tell you honestly what she is.”
“The wife is an old coquette, that is always hankering after the diversions of the town; the husband a morose rustick, that frowns and frets at the name of it.”
“I have heard ladies call her coquette, not understanding that she shone softly upon all who entered the lists because, with the rarest intuition, she foresaw that they must go away broken men and already sympathised with their dear wounds.”
“I have been called a coquette, my prince; it is time to bind myself in marriage bonds, and show the world that love can make an honest woman of me.”
“And she was the worst kind of coquette -- teasing him, arousing him, putting her mouth on him, sucking him off, saying, "That's not sex," then going away.”
“From this day you must learn to embrace all manner of millinery or else relinquish your "coquette" sobriquet.”
“Nice person, actually a "coquette" is a flirt and a person's dress or weight really doesn't affect a person's staus as a coquette.”
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“The fanzine thing is almost done - it will be out on Saturday for sure, it's called "coquette" ... do you know what that means?”
“One of the dances was an old-fashioned cotillon, and one of the figures, the "coquette," brought every one, in turn, before me.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘coquette’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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Collected from reading
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the lascivious
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Good Words
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Lorelai
The philander, the trollop, the hooker with a heart of gold. How do you define this slutty siren?
Tweets
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reesetee Hummingbirds have some of the best names ever. Jun 4, 2011
fbharjo a type of hummingbird - how apt Jun 3, 2011