verb (used without object), co·quet·ted, co·quet·ting.
- to try to attract the attention and admiration of men for mere self-gratification; flirt.
- to act without seriousness; trifle; dally.
adjective
noun
- Obsolete. a male flirt.
verb -quets, -quetting or -quetted (intr)
- to behave flirtatiously
- to dally or trifle
“amorous, flirtatious person,” 1690s, originally of both sexes (as it was in French), from French coquet (17c.), diminutive of coq “cock” (see cock (n.1)). A figurative reference to its strut or its lust. The distinction of fem. coquette began c.1700, and use in reference to males has faded out since.