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Here’s why. The OED says that a coquette is first: 1. A woman (more or less young), who uses arts to gain the admiration and affection of men, merely for the gratification of vanity or from a desire of conquest, and without any intention of responding to the feelings aroused; a woman who habitually trifles with the affections of men; a flirt.
1 ott 2011 · A coquette is an insincere flirt, it has an implication of deliberate manipulation, and malicious intent. "Tease" might be close to a synonym. Whereas flirting doesn't carry that connotation at all. To put it another way, all coquettes are flirts, but not all flirts are coquettes. If a woman is flirting with the deliberate intent of initiating ...
5 nov 2016 · What's the feminine version of womanizer? You would think that a skirt-chaser, being a lover of women (or Highlanders :), would be said to engage in philogyny, but instead he’s known as a philanderer (< Greek ϕίλανδρος) — which while at first glance would be just the word you’re looking for, certainly is not.
13 giu 2015 · 10. A word that is not too derogatory is simply flirt: one given to flirting; a person who acts flirtatiously. - AHDEL/Collins TFD. Anything beyond that is beginning to judge or impute a motive which may or may not be true. Some flirts are charming and funny people who enjoy making people feel good, and want people to like them.
5 mar 2019 · Coquette /kɒˈkɛt/ - a flirtatious woman. Minx - an impudent, cunning, or boldly flirtatious girl or young woman. Examples: The little minx knew exactly what she was doing and she actually enjoyed it. She sang to the bartender, who smiled widely, not daring to tell the minx to get off his counter. I don't know.
31 gen 2019 · After a brief search over StackExchange I've decided to ask my own question. I'm looking for a word to describe someone who enjoys grooming themselves or taking care of their appearance, but witho...
7 ago 2012 · The English took the word gigolo from the French in the 1920s. But the word was rather recent in the French language at the time. It had appeared in French, together with its feminine equivalent gigolette, in the middle of the 19 th century. What’s interesting is that there are two suspected origins to the words gigolo and gigolette in French.
6 dic 2014 · I heard people saying "Of-fen" as well as "Of-ton". Till now I have been using the first one but few days ago I had an interviewer who pronounced often "Of-Ton" while interviewing. "Often" could be pronounced a variety of different ways depending on the speaker's native dialect, how tired or lazy they are, and so on.
30 nov 2013 · Google Books does not contain any other reference to the Burr quotation, but the Foster quotation appears in Hannah Webster Foster, The Coquette (1797), an epistolary novel: I [Eliza Wharton] think you [the Rev. J. Boyer] formerly remarked that absence served but to heighten real love. This I find by experience.
a noun suffix occurring originally in loanwords from French, where it has been used in a variety of diminutive and hypocoristic formations (brunette; cigarette; coquette; etiquette; rosette); as an English suffix, -ette forms diminutives (kitchenette; novelette; sermonette), distinctively feminine nouns (majorette; usherette), and names of ...
