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Webster 1913 Edition

Coquet

Co-quet′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Coquetted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Coquetting
.]
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.
You are
coquetting
a maid of honor.
Swift.

Co-quet′

,
Verb.
I.
To trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest; to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to play (with);
as, we have
coquetted
with political crime
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Coquet

COQUET

, COQUETTE,
Noun.
A vain, airy, trifling girl, who endeavors to attract admiration and advances in love, from a desire to gratify vanity, and then rejects her lover; a jilt.
The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, and sport and flutter in the fields of air.
Note. In French, coquet is masculine and coquette feminine; but as our language has no such termination for gender, it may be better to write coquet for both sexes, and for distinction prefix male to the word when applied to a man.

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