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English
Etymology
From be- (“at; on; about”) + flirt.
Verb
beflirt (third-person singular simple present beflirts, present participle beflirting, simple past and past participle beflirted)
- To flirt about; flirt with
1870, Hugh Rowley, Gamosagammon:[...] 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!
1925, Albert Payson Terhune, Najib:"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.
2000, Harrison Fisher, Poematics of the Hyperbloody Real:These two women beerily beflirt me [...]
2015, Delilah Jay, A Liberal Temptation:Jock beflirts Aelita who doesn't get indulged at all by the fuss he obviously makes.
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