• vi. 調情；玩弄；輕率地對待；擺動
• vt. 揮動；忽然彈出
• n. 急扔；調情的人；賣弄風騷的人
• n. (Flirt)人名；(法)弗利爾特

來自flit, 掠過，輕掠。或直接來自輔音叢bl, fl, 折騰，拍打，擬聲詞，詞源同flap, flabby,flag. 插入字母r, 延長音，模仿調情的聲音。

flirt (v.)

1550s, "to turn up one's nose, sneer at;" later "to rap or flick, as with the fingers" (1560s); "throw with a sudden movement," also "move in short, quick flights" (1580s). Perhaps imitative (compare flip (v.), also East Frisian flirt "a flick or light blow," flirtje "a giddy girl," which also might have fed into the English word), but perhaps rather from or influenced by flit (v.). Related: Flirted; flirting.

The main modern verbal sense of "play at courtship" (1777) probably developed from the noun (see flirt (n.)) but also could have grown naturally from the 16c. meaning "to flit inconstantly from object to object." To flirt a fan (1660s) was to snap it open or closed with a brisk jerk and was long considered part of the coquette's arsenal, which might have contributed to the sense shift. Or the word could have been influenced from French, where Old French fleureter meant "talk sweet nonsense," also "to touch a thing in passing," diminutive of fleur "flower" (n.) and metaphoric of bees skimming from flower to flower. French flirter "to flirt" is a 19c. borrowing from English.

flirt (n.)

1540s, "joke, jest, stroke of wit, contemptuous remark," from flirt (v.). By 1560s as "a pert young hussey" [Johnson], and Shakespeare has flirt-gill (i.e. Jill) "a woman of light or loose behavior" (Fletcher formalizes it as flirt-gillian), while flirtgig was a 17c. Yorkshire dialect word for "a giddy, flighty girl." One of the many fl- words suggesting loose, flapping motion and connecting the notions of flightiness and licentiousness. Compare English dialect and Scottish flisk "to fly about nimbly, skip, caper" (1590s); source of Scott's fliskmahoy "girl giddy and full of herself." The meaning "person who plays at courtship" is from 1732 (as the name of female characters in plays at least since 1689 (Aphra Behn's "The Widow Ranter")). Also in early use sometimes "person one flirts with," though by 1862 this was being called a flirtee.

1. When did you last flirt with him or tease him?

你上次和他調情或挑逗他是什么時候？

來自柯林斯例句

2. She's a real flirt.

她是個打情罵俏的老手。

來自《權威詞典》

3. Her husband is an incorrigible flirt.

她的丈夫是個積習難改的調情老手。

來自《權威詞典》

4. She is an accomplished flirt.

她是個調情老手.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

5. She is a flirt.

她是個賣弄風情的女人.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》