a. [f. FLIRT sb. + -ISH.] Somewhat of the nature of or betokening a flirt.
c. 1665. Mrs. Hutchinson, Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1846), 260. Millington, a man of sixty, professing religion, and having but lately buried a religious matronly gentlewoman, should go to an alehouse to take a flirtish girl of sixteen.
1840. Dickens, Barn. Rudge, xx. Miss Haredale took occasion to charge upon Dolly certain flirtish and inconstant propensities, which accusations Dolly seemed to think very complimentary indeed, and to be mightily amused with.
Hence Flirtishness.
1750. Hist. Cornelia, 211. She had an air of tenderness, mixed with all the flirtishness of coquetry.
