Meaning of Flirt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A subvariant of the Omicron variant, scientifically known as KP.2 and KP.1.1.
2. A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion
3. Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person.
4. An act of flirting.
5. A tentative or brief, passing engagement with something.
6. A brief shower (of rain or snow).
   dialectal
7. Russula vesca, an edible woodland mushroom.
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Examples

“several little flirts and vibrations”

“with many a flirt and flutter”

“an angry hectic in each cheek, a fierce flirt of her fan, and two or three short sniffs that betokened mischief”

“'Oooh, don't.' Lilly staggered behind the counter. 'Hangover from hell. We had a good time, I think. He's such a flirt though. He really fancied Midnight. Was sooo gutted that she was actually a straight man. Think it almost turned him celibate.'”

“Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world.”

“However, after a brief flirt with socialist realism , this method was abandoned and strict controls were removed after 1948. By the early 1950s, writers had earned the right to use any method and to experiment.”

“Manufacturers are being stung into action on both sides of the Atlantic as climbers consult their lawyers after a flirt with gravity. Of course responsible manufacturers already exercise great care with all aspects of safety and testing.”

“Only two years older than André, this bespectacled bookworm had, after a flirt with the surrealists, settled down as the editor of Gallimard's literary monthly, Nouvelle Revue Française, better known by its acronym NRF.”

“However, the later rabbinic Law demands from a Jew who wishes to return to Judaism after a flirt with another religion, to go through giyur, conversion requirements, like any Gentile who wishes to enter the Covenant of Israel.”

“Receiving a chair in Stockholm 1904 – after a passing flirt with the Historical School and social reform – he became an enigmatic Walrasian.”

“Lafayette Ron Hubbard was acquainted for some time with John “Jack” Whiteside Parsons (1914–1952), the James Dean of the occult, who was a rocket engineer and, after a brief flirt with Marxism, became interested in witchcraft and voodoo ...”

“In the course of the month, there were three flirts of snow, […]”

“[page 59:] A flirt of snow; after which, mild and pleasant weather, (with occasional showers) continued through the remainder of the month. [page 220:] The medium temperature of this month was 45, and it produced much mild and pleasant weather, interspersed with some rainy days, and a few flirts of snow, and frosty nights.”

“... and we still trusted to accomplish the Malnitzer Pass on the morrow. Our hopes fell to zero as during the night an ominous wind howled over the roof, and shook our casements furiously. Morning broke with chilling flirts of rain.”

“But joy came in the morning : first a glimpse of blue sky between the flirts of rain, then a sign of the sun. The river was reported to be rapidly filling — never mind, unlucky Friday has passed by, and we may look for better things on Saturday.”

“Long before their wonted time the robins came, — so early, indeed, that many a flirt of snow has stopped their nest-repairing, and sent them off shivering with the blues. They have arrived now in full force.”

“"[…] and I would n't wonder ef we did n't have a little brush of wind and quite a flirt o' snow outen her yit."”

“Who cares now for hailstones skirling? The rushes bend to the eddies curling; A breath — and lo! the flag uncurling its petals blue Oh, spring will come! There's a flirt of rain and a drift of light; Oh, Spring will come!”

“In the haze to the extreme north the Tower of Flints arose like a celluloid ruler set floating upon its end, or like a water-color drawing of a tower that has been left in the open and whose pigment has been all but washed away by a flirt of rain.”

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