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Word Lists. Choose your language. This may be accomplished by communicating a sense of playfulness or irony. Double entendres where one meaning is more formally appropriate, and another more suggestive may be used. Body language can include flicking the hair, eye contact, brief touching, open stances, proximity, and other gestures. Flirting may be done in an under-exaggerated, shy or frivolous style.
Vocal communication of interest can include, for example, alterations in vocal tone such as pace, volume, and intonation , challenges including teasing, questions, qualifying, and feigned disinterest , which may serve to increase tension, and to test intention and congruity, and adoration which includes offers, approval and tact, knowledge and demonstration of poise, self-assurance, smart and stylish, a commanding attitude.
Flirting behavior varies across cultures due to different modes of social etiquette, such as how closely people should stand proxemics , how long to hold eye contact, how much touching is appropriate and so forth. Nonetheless, some behaviors may be more universal.
Flirting or coquetry is a social and sometimes sexual activity involving verbal or written communication as well as body language by one person to another, suggesting an interest in a deeper relationship with the other person. In most cultures, it is socially disapproved for a person to make explicitly sexual advances, but indirect or suggestive advances may at times be considered acceptable.
On the other hand, some people flirt playfully, for amusement. A female, especially a young one, who flirts playfully is sometimes called a coquette or in slang a cock tease; while a male flirt may be called a womanizer or player.
Flirting usually involves speaking and behaving in a way that suggests a mildly greater intimacy than the actual relationship between the parties would justify, though within the rules of social etiquette, which generally disapproves of a direct expression of sexual interest. Double entendres, with one meaning more formally appropriate and another more suggestive, may be used. Body language can include flicking the hair, eye contact, brief touching, open stances, proximity etc.
Verbal communication of interest can include the vocal tone, such as pace, volume, intonation. Challenges serve to increase tension, test intention and congruity. Flirting is a social and sexual behavior involving verbal or written communication, as well as body language, by one person to another, in order to suggest interest in a deeper relationship with the other person.
It can be done offline or online on different matchmaking platforms. California winters are very changeable. I'm confident that people who are currently flirting with the idea of voting Green will end up voting Labor on election day. Many butt-slappers and thigh-strokers fancy that they are merely flirting and flattering. She is incapable of responding to kindness and enquiry, even very gentle flirt ing on the part of a co-worker.
Accordingly, she walks up to Pratt and begins rapping her flirt ing in the terrifying cadence of Nicki Minaj. They end up flirt ing with some girls while traveling with Ben, and are so distracted that they leave him on a city bus.
He enjoyed flirt ing harmlessly, it seems with young women. With flirt ing motions she twisted the folded kerchief into a rope. Style: MLA. More Definitions for flirt. English Language Learners Definition of flirt Entry 1 of 2. Kids Definition of flirt Entry 1 of 2. Kids Definition of flirt Entry 2 of 2. Get Word of the Day daily email!
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