flirt

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Edgar however even tho still a flirt was able to show how he has grown from child to adult and show that even tho he may be a playboy he really does care about Lydia, he also went from seeming like a villain to a prince = D The rest of the character didn't really change or they didn't have time to develop.

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  1. intransitive verb To make playfully romantic or sexual overtures.
  2. intransitive verb To deal playfully, triflingly, or superficially with: flirt with danger.
  3. intransitive verb To move abruptly or jerkily.
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  • 'Cause it takes at least two to flirt, and if everyone brings a friend, then we're all guaranteed to have PLENTY of people to flirt with! —  Feed of Eventbrite Events
  • George Clooney "is America's national flirt, a pitchman on talk shows and red carpets who, against the background hum of the world's lust and envy, is lightly ironic, clever, and self-deprecating, with furrowed brow and bobbing head, and a gyration in the lower jaw suggesting something being moved around under his tongue," writes —  GreenCine Daily
  • Those who know Mina know she loves to flirt, and is almost always game to play along for whatever is happening, which is a great trait in a girlfr-no, fiancee. —  At Longing's End
  • Edgar however even tho still a flirt was able to show how he has grown from child to adult and show that even tho he may be a playboy he really does care about Lydia, he also went from seeming like a villain to a prince = D The rest of the character didn't really change or they didn't have time to develop. —  Anime Nano!
  • There's good news for you, as the Potsdam University (south of Berlin) acknowledges that being unable to flirt is a wide-spread problem. —  TheNextWeb.com
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  1. Formerly also written flurt; of dial. origin, being associated in sense with several other words which have the same initial but different final elements, namely, flirk, flisk, flick, throw, jerk, etc., fleer, flire, gibe, flite, scold, etc. Cf. flird, perhaps in part the orig. form of which flirk and flirt are variations; cf. also jerk, jert, yerk, etc., throw: all these words being more or loss dial., and regarded as vaguely imitative or suggestive of the act they signify, and in so far prob. variations of one or two orig. forms.
  2. Formerly also flurt; from flirt, v.
 

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