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: claim jumper, come on, coquette, cotton ball, cut out the eye chatter, diddle around, flirt, flirtation, flirtatious, flirtigiggs, flirty, flossing, gank, grow on, hanky panky, heart breaker-upper, hit on (someone), Hollywooing, huzzlecoo, lovemaking, make a move on, make a play for, make love to, making love, mash, mess around with, mess with, minx, proposition, put a move on someone, put the make on someone, put the moves on someone, scamming, sit on a face, skainsmate, take eyes at, throw eyes at, unspoken language (of love), vampish, vampy
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.''
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!''
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.''
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