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▪ I. flirting, vbl. n.|ˈflɜːtɪŋ|
[f. flirt v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. flirt in various senses; esp. trifling or coquetting with the opposite sex, flirtation.
1593Nashe 4 Lett. Confut. Wks. (Grosart) II. 274 Thou..keepst such a flurting and a flinging in euerie leafe. 1644Bulwer Chirol. 54 The flirting out of the Back part of the Hand. 1684Contempl. State of Man i. iv. (1699) 44 The flirting up and down of a little Sparrow. 1710Steele Tatler No. 9 ⁋3 Miss with all her Flirting and Ogling. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life iv. xxxiii, The filthy flirtings of a well twirled mop. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. ix, You can have as much flirting as you like.
attrib.1644Bulwer Chiron. 81 The middle Finger strongly comprest by the Thumbe, and their collision producing a flurting sound.
▪ II. flirting, ppl. a.|ˈflɜːtɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That flirts, in various senses of the vb.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 224 The wife that gads not gigglotwise with euerie flirting gill. 1651Fuller Abel Rediv. (1867) II. 322 Some..have cast out flirting censures against this Catalogue. 1663Dryden Wild Gallant v. iii, Nothing vexes me, but that this flirting gentlewoman should go before me. 1668Sedley Mulb. Gard. i. i, But that flirting Hat there looks as 'twere made rather for your Wit than your Head. a1734North Exam. iii. vii. (1740) 509 He could not bear such a flirting Wit and Libertine. 1819Metropolis I. 215 Did you..observe how flirting and amatory a certain very great personage is?
Hence ˈflirtingly adv., in a flirting manner.
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