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To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.

A woman of light behavior; a gill-flirt. [Obs.] Shak. You heard him take me up like a flirt-gill. Beau. & Fl.

Playing at courtship; coquerty. The flirtations and jealousies of our ball rooms. Macaulay.

A wanton, pert girl. [Obs.]

In a flirting manner.

A thoughtless, giddy girl; a flirt-gill. Sir W. Scott.

A light, giddy, or wanton girl or woman. See Gill-flirt.

n, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to grafity vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.

The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt. [prov. Eng.]

A gadding, flirting girl. Gosson.

A flirt. [Obs.] Quarles.

A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl. "Each Jack with his Gill." B. Jonson.

A woman who capriciously deceives her lover; a coquette; a flirt. Otway.

To make love to women; to play the male flirt. You can't go philandering after her again. G. Eliot.

One who hangs about women; a male flirt. [R.] C. Kingsley.

(Ruticilla phoenicurus), allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native of India.

To throw out the heels; to kick; to jerk. They flirt, they yerk, they backward . . . fling. Drayton.