(n.) Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the adult coquetry situation, one observes the female playfully behaving as if she were the child mimicking the infant-mother prototype.
Coquetting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coquet
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest White Beaked Dolphins at the Coquet to St Mary’s MCZ.
(2) Those delights include a colony of puffins on the beautifully named Coquet Island ; powdery sand on a beach straight outta Bermuda via the North Sea, and not another soul to share it with; ancient fragments from the age of the Venerable Bede; craggy castles lorded over by the Percys of Northumberland; tight-knit towns of huddled stone cottages and Norman churches; and, best of all, Spurelli’s ice-cream parlour in Amble.