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We found 10 definitions of coquet from 6 different sources.

What does coquet mean?

Verb
coquet - talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women"
		chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquette, romance, philander, mash
		speak, talk use language; "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect"
		wanton behave extremely cruelly and brutally
		vamp provide (a shoe) with a new vamp; "revamp my old boots"

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coquet (v. t.)
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.
coquet (v. i.)
To trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest; to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to play (with); as, we have coquetted with political crime.

coquet
Coquette, ko-ket′, v.i. to excite admiration or love.—v.t. to trifle with in love: to flirt with: to dally with:—pr.p. coquet′ting; pa.p. coquet′ted.—ns. Cō′quetry, act of coquetting: attempt to attract admiration, without serious affection: deceit in love: any kind of prettiness; Coquette′, a vain woman who seeks admiration from mere vanity: a flirt.—adj. Coquet′tish, practising coquetry: befitting a coquette.—adv. Coquet′tishly.—n. Coquet′tishness. [Fr. coqueter—coquet, dim. of coq, a cock.]

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coquet in sign language