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flirt:
1. To make amorous or sexual advances without serious intent or emotional commitment; to behave amorously or to play at love ; to excite love .

Quotes:

(1) Lena Yakushova/Ninotchka (Greta Garbo) & Count Leon (Melvyn Douglas) in Ninotchka (1939):
-- Ninotchka: ' Must you flirt? '
-- Count Leon: ' I don't have to but I find it natural .'
-- Ninotchka: ' Suppress it! '

(2) Paula Lane (Lana Turner) and Jonny Davis (Clark Gable) in Somewhere I'll Find You (1942):
-- Paula: ' Any gal that listens to the howl of a wolf is a gonner .'
-- Jonny: ' Little Riding Hood didn't do so bad .'
-- Paula: ' She didn't do so good either... 'til she got wise .'

(3) Joan Davis and Kay Kyser in Around the World (1943):
-- Joan: ' Don't get the impression I was trying to flirt with you, Mister, because I got plenty of men. Seventy, eighty, ninety .'
-- Kay: ' Why don't you go-out-with them? '
-- Joan: ' Who wants to go-out-with men seventy, eighty or ninety .'

(4) From the movie Gigi (1958): ' What miracle made you the way you are? '

(5) Ed Furillo (Bruno Kirby) to Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal) in City Slickers (1991): ' That was flirting? (...) That was, I like your ass , can I wear it as a hat? '

2. An act or instance of flirting.

Quotes:

(1) Pete Sandich (Richard Dreyfuss) to Dorinda Durston (Holly Hunter) in Always (1989): ' You just smiled at a poor defenseless guy .'

(2) Nick Gardenia (Chevy Chase) to ex-wife Glenda Park (Goldie Hawn) in Seems Like Old Times (1980): ' I love the way your eyes curl up when you look at me .'

(3) Dr. Chase Meridian (Nicole Kidman) to Batman (Val Kilmer) in Batman Forever (1995): ' My life is an open book. You read? '

(4) Buddy (Pauly Shore) flirting with Olivia (Denise Dowse) in Bio-Dome (1995):-- Buddy: ' Did it hurt? '-- Olivia: ' Did what hurt? '-- Buddy: ' When you fell down from heaven , did it hurt? '

3. A person who makes advances.

Quote: Molly Monahan (Barbara Stanwyck) to Jeff Butler (Joel McCrea) in Union Pacific (1939): ' You think I'm an outrageous flirt. (...) But didn't you ever know that flirting get's into a woman's blood like fighting get's into a man's? Now a girl begins coquetting to discover if she has the power. Then she goes looking, like a fighter after a bully , for the hardest man to conquer, but it's never the man she wants, it's the pleasure of bringing him to her feet .'




See Also: gank, coquette, cotton ball, take eyes at, flirtigiggs, throw eyes at, vampish, vampy, diddle around, flirtatious, make a play for, mash, mess around with, mess with, put a move on someone, put the moves on someone, put the make on someone, skainsmate, flirt,

Quotes Containing flirt:
Gwen (Yvonne Zima) in 'Til There Was You (1997): 'Love's cruel, love's a flirt , love has places to go and people to hurt.'
Molly Monahan (Barbara Stanwyck) to Jeff Butler (Joel McCrea) in Union Pacific (1939): ''You think I''m an outrageous flirt . (...) But didn''t you ever know that flirting get''s into a woman''s blood like fighting get''s into a man''s? Now a girl begins coquetting to discover if she has the power. Then she goes looking, like a fighter after a bully , for the hardest man to conquer, but it''s never the man she wants, it''s the pleasure of bringing him to her feet.''
Joan Davis and Kay Kyser (asthemselves) in Around the World (1943): - Joan: ''Don''t get the impression I was trying to flirt with you, Mister, because I got plenty of men. Seventy, eighty, ninety.'' - Kay: ''Why don''t you go-out-with them?'' - Joan: ''Who wants to go-out-with men seventy, eighty or ninety.''
Ninotchka (Greta Garbo) & Count Leon (Melvyn Douglas) in Ninotchka (1939): - Ninotchka: ''Must you flirt?'' - Count Leon: ''I don''t have to but I find it natural.'' - Ninotchka: ''Suppress it!''


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