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coquet

/ˈkɒk.ɛt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.55 in modern English

Syllables
co-quet
IPA
/ˈkɒk.ɛt/
17
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A flirtatious female; a coquette.

noun

A flirtatious male.

Obsolete

verb

To act as a flirt or coquet.

verb

To waste time; to dally.

verb

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.

name

A river in Northumberland, England, which flows into the North Sea at Amble; in full, the River Coquet.

Example Sentences

Etymology

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

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

coquets (plural) coquets (present, singular) coquetting (participle, present) coquetted (participle, past) coquetted (past) the Coquet (canonical)

Derived Forms

coquettish

Synonyms

chat up flirt dally butterfly coquette romance philander mash

Questions

How do you pronounce coquet?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɒk.ɛt/.
What does coquet mean?
A flirtatious female; a coquette.
Where does coquet come from?
It is traced to French.

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