beflirt

English

Etymology

From be- (at; on; about) + flirt.

Verb

beflirt (third-person singular simple present beflirts, present participle beflirting, simple past and past participle beflirted)

  1. To flirt about; flirt with
    • 1870, Hugh Rowley, Gamosagammon:
      [...] she would put him in amber, amuse his guests, gracefully take the head of his table, and become the most admired and beflirted-with ornamental mistress of a house already filled with other ornaments!
    • 1925, Albert Payson Terhune, Najib:
      "She beflirts herself, like the lady I read, into a Feringhee love tale, at Coney's Island. In that book story, the lady bewhacked the woo person playsomely on the arm with her fan.
    • 2000, Harrison Fisher, Poematics of the Hyperbloody Real:
      These two women beerily beflirt me [...]
    • 2015, Delilah Jay, A Liberal Temptation:
      Jock beflirts Aelita who doesn't get indulged at all by the fuss he obviously makes.

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