Flipt vs Flirt - What's the difference?
flipt | flirt |
(obsolete) (flip)
* 1905 , Theodore Roberts in The Independent , Volume LIX.,
*:?Of love—rare smile and bended knee—
*:?And whispered something of the sea.
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A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer.
* Addison
* Edgar Allan Poe
One who flirts; especially a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl.
* Addison
An episode of flirting.
To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.
To jeer at; to mock.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
*, II.27:
To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.
* 2012 , Lenora Worth, Sweetheart Reunion
To blurt out.
* 1915 , Thornton W. Burgess, The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel , Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, Ch.XXI:
(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:
pert; wanton
As a verb flipt
is (obsolete) (flip).As a noun flirt is
flirtation.flipt
English
Verb
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- And ever as he read the tale
- The wind came by and flipt the page,
flirt
English
Noun
(en noun)- Several little flirts and vibrations.
- With many a flirt and flutter.
- Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world.
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(en verb)- They flirt water in each other's faces.
- to flirt a glove, or a handkerchief
- I am ashamed; I am scorned; I am flirted .
- 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.
- Her skirt flirted around her knees like a flower petal.
- Chatterer flirted his tale in the saucy way he has, and his eyes twinkled.
- 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.