English Dictionary

coquetry

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkɒkɪtɹi/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

Coquettish behaviour; actions designed to excite erotic attention, without intending to reciprocate such feelings (chiefly of women towards men); flirtatious teasing.

日本語の意味

女性が男性に対して見せる、愛情を求める目的の誘惑的であざとい振る舞い / 本心からの感情の返答を意図せず、主に性的な注意を引くために行われる、軽いフリフリした仕草や態度

Her coquetry during the meeting undermined her professionalism, but it drew the attention she wanted.

会議中の彼女の媚びた仕草はプロとしての評価を損ねたが、彼女が望む注目を集めた。

意味（1）

Coquettish behaviour; actions designed to excite erotic attention, without intending to reciprocate such feelings (chiefly of women towards men); flirtatious teasing.

With a lover […] her sensibility will naturally lead her to endeavour to excite emotion, not to gratify her vanity, but her heart. This I do not allow to be coquetry, it is the artless impulse of nature […]

意味（2）

(countable) An act constituting such behaviour; an affectation of amorous interest or enticement, especially of a woman directed towards a man.

The little coquetries, which are as natural to a gay young girl as her laughter, were all in full play, and had she gone no further no harm would have been done.

coquetries （ plural ）