COQUETRY meaning: Flirtatious behavior to attract attention

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coquetry: Merriam-Webster
coquetry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
coquetry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
coquetry: Collins English Dictionary
coquetry: Vocabulary.com
Coquetry, coquetry: Wordnik
coquetry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
coquetry: Wiktionary
coquetry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
coquetry: Infoplease Dictionary
Coquetry, coquetry: Dictionary.com
Coquetry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
coquetry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
coquetry: Rhymezone
Coquetry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
coquetry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
coquetry: FreeDictionary.org
coquetry: Mnemonic Dictionary
coquetry: TheFreeDictionary.com
coquetry: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ noun: Coquettish behaviour; actions designed to excite erotic attention, without intending to reciprocate such feelings (chiefly of women towards men); flirtatious teasing.
▸ noun: (countable) An act constituting such behaviour; an affectation of amorous interest or enticement, especially of a woman directed towards a man.

Opposite:

modesty, reserve, shyness, demureness

Types:

demure, flirtation, coquet, dally, more...

Adjectives:

feminine, little, certain, innocent, mere, much, natural, female, girlish, unconscious, charming

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