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beflirt

beflirt verb: to flirt about; flirt with.

Verb

beflirt (third-person singular simple present beflirts, present participle beflirting, simple past and past participle beflirted)

  1. To flirt about; flirt with
    • [...] 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
    • "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

Examples of beflirt in a sentence

  • These two women beerily beflirt me [...]2000, Harrison Fisher, Poematics of the Hyperbloody Real:
  • Jock beflirts Aelita who doesn't get indulged at all by the fuss he obviously makes.2015, Delilah Jay, A Liberal Temptation:

Forms of beflirt

third-person singular presentbeflirts
present participlebeflirting
past participlebeflirted
pastbeflirted

Origin of beflirt

From be- (“at; on; about”) + flirt.

Questions about beflirt

What does beflirt mean?
Beflirt means to flirt about; flirt with.
How do you use beflirt in a sentence?
These two women beerily beflirt me [...]
What part of speech is beflirt?
Beflirt is a verb.
What is the past tense of beflirt?
The past tense of beflirt is beflirted.

Words near beflirt in the dictionary

  1. beflee
  2. befleeing
  3. beflees
  4. beflew
  5. beflies
  6. beflirt
  7. beflood
  8. beflounced
  9. beflour
  10. befloured
  11. beflouring

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