a. [f. FLIRT sb. + -Y1.] Of or pertaining to flirtation; characterized by or inclined to flirtation.
1840. Lady C. M. C. Bury, Hist. Flirt (1841), I. i. 12. A laughing and flirty dialogue succeeded, which had no power to fix my attention.
1863. Ouida, Held in Bondage, I. ix. 206. How strange it is that Fitz should have been taken in—such a bold, flirty girl, and nothing pretty in her, to my taste?
1870. Public Opinion, XVIII. 6 Aug., 169/1. That blooming matron feels infinite satisfaction in criticising the flirty ways of a fascinating widow around whom the men are buzzing like bees around a honey-bottle.
