[flirt] vb [origin unknown] vt (1583) 1: flick
2: to move in a jerky manner ~ vi 1: to move erratically: flit
2. a: to behave amorously without serious intent b: to show superficial or casual interest or liking "~ed with the idea"; also: experiment "a novelist ~ing with poetry"
3: to come close to--used with with "the temperature ~ed with 100 degrees" syn see trifle -- flir.ta.tion n -- flirt.er n -- flirty adj
[2]flirt n (ca. 1590) 1: an act or instance of flirting
2: a person who flirts