COQUETTISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coquettish mean? 

• COQUETTISH (adjective)
  The adjective COQUETTISH has 1 sense:

1. like a coquette

  Familiarity information: COQUETTISH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COQUETTISH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Like a coquette

Synonyms:

coquettish; flirtatious

Similar:

sexy (marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest)

 Context examples 

I had learnt her whole character, which was without mystery or disguise: she was coquettish but not heartless; exacting, but not worthlessly selfish.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

If she had even said 'I hate you' in a petulant or coquettish tone, he would have laughed and rather liked it, but the grave, almost sad, accent in her voice made him open his eyes, and ask quickly...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her ear.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One of the girls kept laughing affectedly, and saying, "Now Professor," in a coquettish tone, and the other pronounced her German with an accent that must have made it hard for him to keep sober.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

With her pretty hair tucked into a little cap, arms bared to the elbow, and a checked apron which had a coquettish look in spite of the bib, the young housewife fell to work, feeling no doubts about her success, for hadn't she seen Hannah do it hundreds of times?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)