Coquettish (adj)
koh-ket-ish
characteristically flirtatious, especially in a teasing, lighthearted manner.
Coquettish comes from the French word coquette, a flirtatious woman, with a male equivalent, coquet. Formed from coq, “rooster,” and -et (feminine -ette), a suffix meaning “small, little,”
Example sentences
“He did not like it when she displayed her coquettish nature in public.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
