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; to lead on.
   • November 26, 1725, Jonathan Swift, letter to Alexander Pope

     You [are] coquetting a maid of honour.

• coquettish

Borrowed from French coquet, diminutive of coq (“cock”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kuˈkɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [koˈkət]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [koˈket]

coquet (feminine coqueta, masculine plural coquets, feminine plural coquetes)

1. charming, flirtatious
2. vain, frivolous

   Synonyms: presumit, frívol

• coquetejar
• coqueteria
• coquetó

• “coquet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): /koːˈkɛt/
• Hyphenation: co‧quet
• Rhymes: -ɛt

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 Superseded spelling of koket.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 coquette, masculine plural coquets, feminine plural coquettes)

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

• coquetterie

• → Afrikaans: koket
• → Catalan: coquet
• → Dutch: koket
• → German: kokett
• → Thai: โก้เก๋

• “coquet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

coquet

1. third-person singular future active indicative of coquō