| 单词 | to play the coquet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play the coquet A man who trifles with women's affections; a man given to flirting or coquetry. Frequently in to play the coquet. Cf. coquette n. 1b. Now somewhat dated.See note at sense A. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > [noun] > flirt > male flirt spider-caul1631 rover1638 coquet1691 male coquette1710 flirta1732 1691 Satyr against French 14 We shortly must our Native Speech forget And every Man appear a French Coquett. 1732 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) I. 362 My brother..is playing the coquet among the belles on Tunbridge walks. 1819 J. Constable Let. 2 Nov. (1962) 189 While I am writing all this I am playing the Coquet as I mean to add a post script to this note... P.S. I was last night..elected an Associate of the Royal Academy. 1989 Newsweek (U.S. ed.) (Nexis) 29 May 4 ‘The man is a bit of a coquet’, said an aide. 2008 H. Klein in S. King & Y. Schlick Refiguring the Coquette 157 The coquet behaves in a way that a gentleman decidedly would not. < as lemmas |
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