Word Meanings - FLIRTINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a flirting manner.

Related words: (words related to FLIRTINGLY)

• FLIRT
  1. To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief. 2. To toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan. 3. To jeer at; to treat
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• FLIRTIGIG
  A wanton, pert girl.
• FLIRT-GILL
  A woman of light behavior; a gill-flirt. Shak. You heard him take me up like a flirt-gill. Beau. & Fl.
• FLIRTATION
  1. Playing at courtship; coquerty. The flirtations and jealousies of our ball rooms. Macaulay.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• FLIRTINGLY
  In a flirting manner.
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• GILL-FLIRT
  A thoughtless, giddy girl; a flirt-gill. Sir W. Scott.
• JILL-FLIRT
  A light, giddy, or wanton girl or woman. See Gill-flirt.