Playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest.
synonyms: dalliance, flirt, flirtation, flirting, toying.
Roget 607:
change of mind,
change of intention,
change of purpose;
afterthought.
tergiversation,
recantation;
palinode,
palinody†;
renunciation;
abjuration†,
abjurement;
defection
etc.
(relinquishment)
624;
going over
etc.
v.;
apostasy;
retraction,
retractation†;
withdrawal;
disavowal
etc.
(negation)
536;
revocation,
revokement†;
reversal;
repentance
etc.
950;
redintegratio amoris [Lat.].
coquetry;
vacillation
etc.
605;
backsliding;
volte-face [Fr.].
turn coat,
turn tippet†;
rat,
apostate,
renegade;
convert,
pervert;
proselyte,
deserter;
backslider;
blackleg,
crawfish [U.S.],
scab [Slang],
mugwump [U.S.],
recidivist.
time server,
time pleaser†;
timist†,
Vicar of Bray,
trimmer,
ambidexter†;
weathercock
etc.
(changeable)
149;
Janus.
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Roget 855:
affectation;
affectedness
etc.
adj.;
acting a part
etc.
v.;
pretense
etc.
(falsehood)
544,
(ostentation)
882;
boasting
etc.
884.
charlatanism,
quackery,
shallow profundity;
pretension,
airs,
pedantry,
purism,
precisianism,
euphuism;
teratology
etc.
(altiloquence)
577.
mannerism,
simagree,
grimace.
conceit,
foppery,
dandyism,
man millinery,
coxcombry,
puppyism.
stiffness,
formality,
buckram;
prudery,
demureness,
coquetry,
mock modesty,
minauderie,
sentimentalism;
mauvais honte,
false shame.
affector,
performer,
actor;
pedant,
pedagogue,
doctrinaire,
purist,
euphuist,
mannerist;
grimacier;
lump of affectation,
precieuse ridicule [Fr.],
bas bleu [Fr.],
blue stocking,
poetaster;
prig;
charlatan
etc.
(deceiver)
548;
petit maitre
etc.
(fop)
854;
flatterer
etc.
935;
coquette,
prude,
puritan.
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Roget 902:
endearment,
caress;
blandishment,
blandiment†;
panchement,
fondling,
billing and cooing,
dalliance,
necking,
petting,
sporting,
sparking,
hanky-panky;
caressing.
embrace,
salute,
kiss,
buss,
smack,
osculation,
deosculation†;
amorous glances.
courtship,
wooing,
suit,
addresses,
the soft impeachment;
lovemaking;
serenading;
caterwauling.
flirting
etc.
v.;
flirtation,
gallantry;
coquetry.
true lover's knot,
plighted love;
love tale,
love token,
love letter;
billet-doux,
valentine.
honeymoon;
Strephon and Chloe†.
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Roget 933:
flattery,
adulation,
gloze;
blandishment,
blandiloquence†;
cajolery;
fawning,
wheedling
etc.
v.;
captation†,
coquetry,
obsequiousness,
sycophancy,
flunkeyism†,
toadeating†,
tuft-hunting;
snobbishness.
incense,
honeyed words,
flummery;
bunkum,
buncombe;
blarney,
placebo,
butter;
soft soap,
soft sawder†;
rose water.
voice of the charmer,
mouth honor;
lip homage;
euphemism;
unctuousness
etc.
adj..
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Dutch: verspilling, tijdverlies, flirt, flirtation, geflirt
Polish: kokieteria, kokieteryjność, zalotność, filuteria, filuterność