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Flirt

To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.

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Verb group 6

Dally 84% connected

To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Dally 84% connected

To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Play 84% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Play 84% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Trifle 84% connected

A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Trifle 84% connected

A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 10

Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Caper 76% connected

To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Frolic 76% connected

Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Gambol 76% connected

A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Play 76% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Romp 76% connected

To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.

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Speak 76% connected

To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Talk 76% connected

To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Woman 76% connected

An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 2

Vamp 76% connected

To advance; to travel.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Wanton 76% connected

Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 6

Coquette 74% connected

A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Coquette 74% connected

A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dally 74% connected

To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dally 74% connected

To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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toying 74% connected

of Toy

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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toying 74% connected

of Toy

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Synonym 18

Butterfly 92% connected

A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Coquet 92% connected

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.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Coquetry 92% connected

Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Coquette 92% connected

A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dalliance 92% connected

The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dally 92% connected

To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Flirtation 92% connected

Playing at courtship; coquetry.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Flirting 92% connected

of Flirt

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Mash 92% connected

A mesh.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Minx 92% connected

A pert or a wanton girl.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Philander 92% connected

To make love to women; to play the male flirt.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Play 92% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Romance 92% connected

A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arth…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tease 92% connected

To comb or card, as wool or flax.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Toy 92% connected

A plaything for children; a bawble.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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toying 92% connected

of Toy

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Vamp 92% connected

To advance; to travel.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Vamper 92% connected

One who vamps; one who pieces an old thing with something new; a cobbler.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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