a. Also 8 -quetish. [f. COQUETTE + -ISH.] Like or of the nature of a coquette; of or characterized by coquetry.
1702. Eng. Theophrast., 29. A Coquetish Humour is an Irregularity, or Debauchery of the Mind.
1792. Mary Wollstonecr., Rights Wom., v. 195. Her dress is extremely modest in appearance, and yet very coquettish in fact.
1845. Ld. Campbell, Chancellors (1857), IV. xcv. 294. He then paid court to a coquettish young widow.
1859. Geo. Eliot, A. Bede, 70. Hetty tossed and patted her pound of butter with quite a self-possessed, coquettish air.
b. Comb., as coquettish-looking, etc.
1869. Miss Braddon, Lady’s Mile, i. A pretty, coquettish-looking girl.
