flirtation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: flir=ta=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

flirtation, n. 

 Playing at courtship; coquetry.  [1913 Webster]
"The flirtations and jealousies of our ball rooms."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

flirtation

adulterous affair, adultery, affair, agacerie, allure, allurement, amorous looks, amour, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, beguilement, beguiling, bewitchery, bewitchment, blandishment, cajolery, captivation, charisma, charm, charmingness, come-hither, come-hither look, coquetry, coquettish glances, coquettishness, coyness, cuckoldry, dabbling, dalliance, dallying, enchantment, entanglement, enthrallment, enticement, entrapment, eternal triangle, fascination, fiddling, flirtatiousness, fooling, fooling around, forbidden fruit, forbidden love, glamour, goo-goo eyes, hanky-panky, idling, illicit love, inducement, infidelity, interest, intrigue, inveiglement, invitation, jerking off, kidding around, liaison, loitering, love affair, magnetism, messing around, monkeying, monkeying around, ogle, piddling, playing, playing around, pottering, puttering, romance, romantic tie, seducement, seduction, seductiveness, sex appeal, smattering, snaring, tantalization, temptation, tinkering, toying, triangle, trifling, unfaithfulness, winning ways, winsomeness, witchery, wooing

ROGET THESAURUS

flirtation

Endearment

N endearment, caress, blandishment, blandiment, panchement, fondling, billing and cooing, dalliance, necking, petting, sporting, sparking, hanky-panky, caressing, embrace, salute, kiss, buss, smack, osculation, deosculation, amorous glances, courtship, wooing, suit, addresses, the soft impeachment, lovemaking, serenading, caterwauling, flirting, flirtation, gallantry, coquetry, true lover's knot, plighted love, love tale, love token, love letter, billet-doux, valentine, honeymoon, Strephon and Chloe, caressing, sighing like furnace, love-sick, spoony, caressed, faint heart neer won fair lady, kisses honeyed by oblivion.