Harass vs Flirt - What's the difference?
harass | flirt |
To fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.
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To annoy endlessly or systematically; to molest.
* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 23[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/23]
To put excessive burdens upon; to subject to anxieties.
(obsolete) devastation; waste
(obsolete) worry; harassment
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 harass and flirt
is that harass is (obsolete) devastation; waste while flirt is flirtation.As a verb harass
is to fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.harass
English
Verb
(es)- In my old home, I always knew that John and my master were my friends; but here, although in many ways I was well treated, I had no friend. York might have known, and very likely did know, how that rein harassed me; but I suppose he took it as a matter of course that could not be helped; at any rate nothing was done to relieve me.
- in the early 1940s.
Synonyms
* hassle * harry * chivy or chivvy * chevy or chevvy * beset * plague * molest * provokeDerived terms
* harasser * harassmentExternal links
* *Noun
- (Milton)
- (Byron)
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.