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variants or coquettes
present tense third-person singular of coquet
as in flirts
to show a sexual attraction for someone just for fun a group of college students coquetting with each other at the beach

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coquets

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noun

plural of coquet

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flirts
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  • While Courtney flirts with tattooed store clerk Chad (Wolfhard), Norman and Neil meet a trouble-making (and territorial) phantom kid.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
  • On screen, the character of Grofield flirts with danger the way an artist flirts with an audience.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 9 Oct. 2025
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“Coquets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coquets. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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