1. To run and dart about; to act with giddiness, or from a desire to attract notice; especially, to play the
coquette; to play at courtship; to coquet; as, they flirt with the young men.
2. To utter contemptuous language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
Flirt
(Flirt), n.
1. A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer.
Several little flirts and vibrations.
Addison.
With many a flirt and flutter.
E. A. Poe. 2. [Cf. LG. flirtje, G. flirtchen. See Flirt, v. t.] One who flirts; esp., a woman who acts with giddiness,
or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl.
Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world.
Addison. Flirt
(Flirt), a. Pert; wanton. [Obs.]
Flirtation
(Flir*ta"tion) n.
1. Playing at courtship; coquetry.
The flirtations and jealousies of our ball rooms.
Macaulay. Flirt-gill
(Flirt"-gill`) n. A woman of light behavior; a gill-flirt. [Obs.] Shak.
You heard him take me up like a flirt- gill.
Beau. & Fl. Flirtigig
(Flirt"i*gig) n. A wanton, pert girl. [Obs.]
Flirtingly
(Flirt"ing*ly), adv. In a flirting manner.
Flisk
(Flisk) v. i. To frisk; to skip; to caper. [Obs. Scot.] "The flisking flies." Gosson.
Flisk
(Flisk), n. A caper; a spring; a whim. [Scot.]
Flit
(Flit) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flitted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Flitting ] [OE. flitten, flutten, to carry away; cf.
Icel. flytja, Sw. flytta, Dan. flytte. &radic84. Cf. Fleet, v. i.]
1. To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird
flits away; a cloud flits along.
A shadow flits before me.
Tennyson. 2. To flutter; to rove on the wing. Dryden.
3. To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate.
It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some
other.
Hooker. 4. To remove from one place or habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Wright. Jamieson.
5. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
And the free soul to flitting air resigned.
Dryden.
