beflirt
English edit
Etymology edit
From be- (“at; on; about”) + flirt.
Verb edit
beflirt (third-person singular simple present beflirts, present participle beflirting, simple past and past participle beflirted)
- To flirt about; flirt with
- 1870, Hugh Rowley, Gamosagammon:
- [...] she would put him in amber, amuse his guests, gracefully take the head of his table, and become the most admired and beflirted-with ornamental mistress of a house already filled with other ornaments!
- 1925, Albert Payson Terhune, Najib:
- "She beflirts herself, like the lady I read, into a Feringhee love tale, at Coney's Island. In that book story, the lady bewhacked the woo person playsomely on the arm with her fan.
- 2000, Harrison Fisher, Poematics of the Hyperbloody Real:
- These two women beerily beflirt me [...]
- 2015, Delilah Jay, A Liberal Temptation:
- Jock beflirts Aelita who doesn't get indulged at all by the fuss he obviously makes.