coquette

Borrowed from French coquette.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɒˈkɛt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /koʊˈkɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

coquette (plural coquettes)

1. A woman who flirts or plays with men's affections.
   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 11, in On the Road, Viking Press, OCLC 43419454, part 3:

     She was a big, sexy brunette—as Garcia said, «Something straight out of Degas,» and generally like a beautiful Parisian coquette.

   • 1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage (1998), page 141:

     I was playing with him, leading him on, sending him messages of encouragement then turning away from him. I was a tease, a coquette.

2. Any hummingbird in the genus Lophornis

coquette (third-person singular simple present coquettes, present participle coquetting, simple past and past participle coquetted)

1. Alternative form of coquet
   • 1875, Herbert Eastwick Compton, Semi-tropical trifles:

     Nobber has no small opinion of himself: he considers himself the Adonis of the Pondaati eleven, and he contemplates society as though it were Venus, and it was his mission to posturize before it, and coquette and toy with it.

From coquet.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.kɛt/

coquette

1. feminine singular of coquet

coquette f (plural coquettes)

1. flirt, tease

   Elle est une vraie coquette.

   She's such a flirt.

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