flirt

flirttailla, flirtata

flirtti

flirttailija A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion
Addison

Several little flirts and vibrations.

With many a flirt and flutter.

'Oooh, don't.' Lilly staggered behind the counter. 'Hangover from hell. We had a good time, I think. He's such a flirt though. He really fancied Midnight. Was sooo gutted that she was actually a straight man. Think it almost turned him celibate.'

Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world.

They flirt water in each others faces.''

to flirt a glove, or a handkerchief

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

Asinius Pollio(nb..), 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.

I've thrown away my reputation, self-respect, money, health and happiness through the use of drugs and alcohol; I can teach her how fragile a reputation is, how a fool and their money are soon parted, and how dangerous it is to flirt with drugs.

The various episodes of thinkers flirting with the idea of an infinite universe, starting with early Greek speculations and running through Cusa in the Renaissance, came to fruition as a central element in the Scientific Revolution.