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beflirt en · VERB

Etymology

From be- (“at; on; about”) + flirt.

Meanings

1. To flirt about; flirt with
   • Jock beflirts Aelita who doesn't get indulged at all by the fuss he obviously makes. 2015, Delilah Jay, A Liberal Temptation:
   • [...] she would put him in amber, amuse his guests, gracefully take the head of his table, and become the most admired and beflirted-with ornamental mistress of a house already filled with other ornaments! 1870, Hugh Rowley, Gamosagammon:
   • These two women beerily beflirt me [...] 2000, Harrison Fisher, Poematics of the Hyperbloody Real:
   • "She beflirts herself, like the lady I read, into a Feringhee love tale, at Coney's Island. In that book story, the lady bewhacked the woo person playsomely on the arm with her fan. 1925, Albert Payson Terhune, Najib:

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