Fuming vs Flirt - What's the difference?
fuming | flirt |
that fumes
very angry
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The act of one who fumes or shows suppressed anger.
* 1840 , The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register
* 1986 , John B. Sanford, The Waters of Darkness
* 1949 , New Brunswick Laboratory, Assayer's Guide
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 nouns the difference between fuming and flirt
is that fuming is the act of one who fumes or shows suppressed anger while flirt is flirtation.As a verb fuming
is .As an adjective fuming
is that fumes.fuming
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
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Derived terms
* fuming sulphuric acidNoun
(en noun)- He fumed, and threatened, and stormed; but his fumings , and threatenings, and stormings, were powerless to turn from him the keen edge of public ridicule.
- And endlessly you'd read his fumings against the running dogs of capitalism, against the lackeys and the lumpen — and against you for being unable to collect a bill from his debtor.
- Evaporate, fume again, cool and wash down the sides of the beaker and watch glass, and then fume again. Your fumings are necessary to remove the cupferron decomposition products and nitric acid from the solution.
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.
