Verb

(en verb)

To pull toward without touching.

* Derham

All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another.

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To arouse interest.

To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.

* (John Milton)

Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.

Verb

(en verb)

To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.

They flirt water in each other's faces.

to flirt a glove, or a handkerchief

To jeer at; to mock.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

I am ashamed; I am scorned; I am flirted .

*, II.27:

Asinius Pollio , having written many invectives against Plancus, staid untill he were dead to publish them. It was rather to flurt at a blind man, and raile in a dead mans eare, and to offend a senselesse man, than incurre the danger of his revenge.

To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.

* 2012 , Lenora Worth, Sweetheart Reunion

Her skirt flirted around her knees like a flower petal.

To blurt out.

* 1915 , Thornton W. Burgess, The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel , Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, Ch.XXI:

Chatterer flirted his tale in the saucy way he has, and his eyes twinkled.

(senseid)To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way.

* 2006 , The Guardian , 21 April:

Dr Hutchinson, who told jurors that he had been married for 37 years and that his son was a policeman, said he enjoyed flirting with the woman, was flattered by her attention and was anticipating patting her bottom again—but had no intention of seducing her.