Definitions for coquets

coquets co·quet

Spelling: [koh-ket]
IPA: /koʊˈkɛt/

Coquets is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 132 anagrams from letters in coquets (ceoqstu).

Definitions for coquets

noun

  1. Obsolete. a male flirt.

adjective

  1. coquettish.

verb (used without object)

  1. to try to attract the attention and admiration of men for mere self-gratification; flirt.
  2. to act without seriousness; trifle; dally.

Origin of coquets

1685-95; French; literally, cockerel, equivalent to coq cock + -et -et

Examples for coquets

I have been; and can tell you something more of the coquet which is interesting.

He was masked, and attended only by coquet, his master of the household.

A litter conveyed him to a hired yacht, which lay at the mouth of the coquet.

How little this was to be expected from Mlle. coquet's shop!

He was masked, and had with him only coquet, the master of the household.

Was it now a desire merely to coquet with a young and handsome lad?

coquet holds the affections of Northumbrians, I think, above all their rivers.

The fishermen of the coquet, however, are not all inarticulate.

To be betrothed and to coquet with other men,—that passes human understanding.

Without any need of self-restraint, no wish to coquet ever entered her head.

Word Value for coquets
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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