different between coquetry vs coquette

English

Etymology

From French coquetterie

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?k?t?i/, /?k??k?t?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ko?k?t?i/

Noun

coquetry (countable and uncountable, plural coquetries)

1. Coquettish behaviour; actions designed to excite erotic attention, without intending to reciprocate such feelings (chiefly of women towards men); flirtatious teasing.
   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 73:

     With a lover […] her sensibility will naturally lead her to endeavour to excite emotion, not to gratify her vanity, but her heart. This I do not allow to be coquetry, it is the artless impulse of nature […].

2. (countable) An act constituting such behaviour; an affectation of amorous interest or enticement, especially of a woman directed towards a man.

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:coquetry.

Synonyms

• flirtation

Translations

References

• coquetry in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• coquetry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French coquette.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??k?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ko??k?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

coquette (plural coquettes)

1. A woman who flirts or plays with men's affections.
2. Any hummingbird in the genus Lophornis

Related terms

Translations

Verb

coquette (third-person singular simple present coquettes, present participle coquetting, simple past and past participle coquetted)

1. Alternative form of coquet

French

Etymology

From coquet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.k?t/

Adjective

coquette

1. feminine singular of coquet

Noun

coquette f (plural coquettes)

1. flirt, tease

Descendants

Further reading

• “coquette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).