coquet
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See also: Coquet
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French coquet (“little cockerel”), from coq (“cockerel”) + -et (“masculine diminutive suffix”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]coquet (plural coquets)
- A flirtatious female; a coquette.
- (obsolete) A flirtatious male.
Translations
[edit]a flirt or coquet(te)
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Verb
[edit]coquet (third-person singular simple present coquets, present participle coquetting, simple past and past participle coquetted)
- To act as a flirt or coquet.
- To waste time; to dally.
- To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint; to lead on.
- November 26, 1725, Jonathan Swift, letter to Alexander Pope
- You [are] coquetting a maid of honour.
- November 26, 1725, Jonathan Swift, letter to Alexander Pope
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]act as a flirt or coquet
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Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French coquet, diminutive of coq (“cock”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]coquet (feminine coqueta, masculine plural coquets, feminine plural coquetes)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “coquet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]coquet (comparative coquetter, superlative coquetst)
Usage notes
[edit]- The spelling coquet was deprecated in 1996 in the new Groene Boekje (“Little Green Book”) spelling reform.
Declension
[edit]Declension of coquet | ||||
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uninflected | coquet | |||
inflected | coquette | |||
comparative | coquetter | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | coquet | coquetter | het coquetst het coquetste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | coquette | coquettere | coquetste |
n. sing. | coquet | coquetter | coquetste | |
plural | coquette | coquettere | coquetste | |
definite | coquette | coquettere | coquetste | |
partitive | coquets | coquetters | — |
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]coquet (feminine coquette, masculine plural coquets, feminine plural coquettes)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “coquet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]coquet
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