coquetryとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French coquetterie

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒkɪtɹi/, /ˈkəʊkətɹi/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊkətɹi/

名詞

coquetry (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 coquetries)

1. Coquettish behaviour; actions designed to excite erotic attention, without intending to reciprocate such feelings (chiefly of women towards men); flirtatious teasing.
   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 73:

     With a lover […] her sensibility will naturally lead her to endeavour to excite emotion, not to gratify her vanity, but her heart. This I do not allow to be coquetry, it is the artless impulse of nature […].

2. (countable) An act constituting such behaviour; an affectation of amorous interest or enticement, especially of a woman directed towards a man.
   • 1882, Louisa M. Alcott, Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories‎^[1]:

     The little coquetries, which are as natural to a gay young girl as her laughter, were all in full play, and had she gone no further no harm would have been done.

   • 1910, Geraldine Bonner, The Emigrant Trail‎^[2]:

     The mischievous pleasure of her coquetries was forgotten, and in a rush of glad confidence she felt a woman's pride in him.

   • 1913, Carolyn Wells, Patty's Social Season‎^[3]:

     "Her pretty little coquetries are like the gambols of a kitten.

引用

• For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:coquetry.

同意語

• flirtation

参照

• coquetry in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• coquetry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.