coquet

Borrowed from French coquet (“little cockerel”), from coq (“cockerel”) + -et (“masculine diminutive suffix”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒk.ɛt/

coquet (plural coquets)

1. A flirtatious female; a coquette.
2. (obsolete) A flirtatious male.

coquet (third-person singular simple present coquets, present participle coquetting, simple past and past participle coquetted)

1. To act as a flirt or coquet.
2. To waste time; to dally.
3. To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint.
   • Jonathan Swift

     You are coquetting a maid of honour.

• coquettish

coquet (comparative coquetter, superlative coquetst)

1. Superseded spelling of koket.

• The spelling coquet was deprecated in 1996 in the new Groene Boekje (“Little Green Book”) spelling reform.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.kɛ/

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coquet (feminine singular coquette, masculine plural coquets, feminine plural coquettes)

1. vain, conscious of one's appearance
2. sweet, cute, charming

• coquetterie

• → Dutch: koket
• → German: kokett

• “coquet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

coquet

1. third-person singular future active indicative of coquō