What's the difference between blurt and flirt?

Blurt


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There has been much pointing-and-chortling of late at the Daily Mail's embarrassing failure to stoke national outrage over a mildly irreverent comment about the Queen's sex life blurted out by Jack Whitehall on a festive panel show.
  • (2) Blurted out to a person he hoped to impress by whatever means, his words here — and the quickly denied allegations about Australian players — can be dismissed as pub talk.
  • (3) Accompanied by prolonged silences, it makes the recipients go weak at the knees and blurt out bumbling apologies, as we saw with Nixon's cathartic admission – and then, of course, forgiveness.
  • (4) However, after persistent questioning, I blurted out a response: “I don’t know.
  • (5) When he told her "I'm a fan," she blurted, "I'm going to be naked in a movie!"
  • (6) Then her mother blurted out: "Dad's seeing someone."
  • (7) When a reporter doorstepped him three years ago, he blurted out: "You don't have a gun.
  • (8) "I started supporting FC Barcelona after reading George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia," blurts Kenneth Fomenky.
  • (9) I would just blurt out, "I breastfed until I was five!"
  • (10) This is not exactly a new strategy for Republicans – it is reminiscent, for example, of the moment when George W Bush, interrogated by Trevor McDonald about pollution, blurted: “Well, I just beg to differ with every figure you’ve got.” But Trump’s version is more radical: an epistemological scorched-earth policy in which no information can be trusted except what issues from the pouting lips of the Dear Leader himself.
  • (11) A minister blurts out something or a document slips loose.
  • (12) I remember once, at the end of a long night, blurting out to a publisher that the story was made up.
  • (13) One of them blurted out, "That's Dr. Carnegie, the first Black nurse!"
  • (14) Under the threat of an investigation by the lord chancellor, Lord Dilhorne, Profumo blurted out the truth to his wife Valerie over lunch in Venice.
  • (15) Instead, the Republican nominee blurted out four words: “That makes me smart.” For once Trump – serial liar and alleged serial groper – had inadvertently revealed a great truth.
  • (16) Eventually I crack, and blurtingly ask about his eye.
  • (17) The taxidermist invited me to guess again, but before I could he blurted: "It's a Pygmy!"
  • (18) Elizabeth is prone to blurting out aphorisms, such as "it's easier to give a blow job than make coffee" and "you should be just as happy with the breasts you have as you are with the futility of existence".
  • (19) In her acceptance speech, she expressed her sympathies – even if, in the heat of the moment, she blurted out that "education is a privilege not a right", which might well be taken as a prophecy.
  • (20) With his penchant for mooning and blurting out risqué spoonerisms, Crayon Shin-chan has delighted Japanese children, and infuriated their parents, for more than two decades.

Flirt


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.
  • (v. t.) To toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan.
  • (v. t.) To jeer at; to treat with contempt; to mock.
  • (v. i.) To run and dart about; to act with giddiness, or from a desire to attract notice; especially, to play the coquette; to play at courtship; to coquet; as, they flirt with the young men.
  • (v. i.) To utter contemptuous language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe.
  • (n.) A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer.
  • (v. t.) One who flirts; esp., a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl.
  • (a.) Pert; wanton.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some in the industry expect buyouts from big internet companies like Google, which was rumoured to have flirted with WhatsApp earlier this year.
  • (2) Trump and his wife, Melania, descended an escalator into the basement lobby of the Trump Tower on 16 June 2015, for an announcement many observers said would never come: the celebrity real estate developer, who had flirted with running for office in the past, would announce that he was launching his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination.
  • (3) The woman from Lesotho alleges one guard who flirted with her in 2009 is still working there because a friend had complained to her about the same man when she was released from Yarl's Wood earlier this month.
  • (4) In her first straight dramatic role, albeit one with comedy elements, Hart has proved a hit: Chummy's awkward flirting with Constable Noakes, wobbly cycling and surprise medical ability delighting the show's more than 10 million viewers.
  • (5) Some bands delight in producing music that flirts with dangerous themes.
  • (6) A well-known conservative, Ditka publicly flirted with running against Democratic candidate Barack Obama, then a state senator, for the open seat in the US Senate vacated by Illinois senator Peter Fitzgerald in 2004.
  • (7) The slick advert, released this week, shows a young couple flirting at a polling site , before the woman grabs the man by the neck and pulls him into the election booth as heavy breaths accompany a techno soundtrack.
  • (8) Burnham said “a language of xenophobia has entered the lexicon” of British politics and that many politicians were flirting with racism.
  • (9) Click here to view Ingrid Jungermann's "homoneurotic" Kickstarter-funded webseries sees "internally homophobic" lesbian Ingrid panic-spiral about everything, from attending trans parties to flirting with bar staff.
  • (10) Sapp flirts with apocalyptic rhetoric on the way to the conclusion that Trump recognizes no power higher than his own ego.
  • (11) At the same time, don’t we want our pop stars to at least flirt with irresponsibility?
  • (12) You’ve already seen the first sorties: since the separation of powers is the longest-standing of American ideas, the tweeted hostility to a “so-called judge” crosses a line only Richard Nixon ever flirted with.
  • (13) Faced with a rapidly ageing society, skyrocketing housing prices, low birth rates and a population that works the longest hours in the world, this country of 5.3 million people has made various attempts over the years to encourage its citizens to marry and procreate, from government-funded speed-dating schemes to educational flyers on how to flirt.
  • (14) But if Facebook flirts too brazenly with commercial partners, it may see its growth slow down dramatically.
  • (15) They seem to flirt with the idea of replacing democratic institutions.
  • (16) Even one journalist in a gay bar has to work hard not to spoil the party, so the poor Russians who came in on Friday and Saturday night for a peaceful drink and a flirt must have felt like animals in a zoo.
  • (17) Both were then publicly flirting with a presidential bid but neither Palin nor Trump eventually threw their hat in the ring.
  • (18) He dropped out to set up Rawkus Records with friends, before his father enticed him into the family business, offering him the chance to run internet businesses at a time when the world's big media groups were first flirting with the online world.
  • (19) As a director, too, Hytner has continued to flirt with multiple identities.
  • (20) West Ham's manager of three years, who steered the team to a 13th-place finish this season after flirting with relegation for long periods, held talks with the co-chairman David Sullivan on Tuesday amid grumbling supporters' discontent at the style of football the side have played.