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Coquette vs. flirt - English Language Usage Stack Exchange What is the difference between coquette and flirt? They seem to mean the exact same thing; is it only their historical or etymological baggage that determines different usage?
single word requests - Verb to refer to people yelling wooh . . . At first I thought it was called wooing wooed But then I checked the Free Dictionary: woo (w) v wooed, woo·ing, woos v tr 1 To seek the affection of with intent to romance 2 a To seek to achieve; try to gain b To tempt or invite 3 To entreat, solicit, or importune v intr To court a woman And realized it was not What's the correct
Why are there 3 different ways to pronounce oo? woo- This isn’t a useful class of words to memorize, but they’re interesting in terms of etymology The sequence wu is uncommon in English spelling (the letter w, as its name implies, used to be written as two u’s, which makes “wu” the awkward sequence uuu ) Consider the spelling of the word “wolf” wʊlf < OE wulf
Someone who instigates conflict and then plays the victim? Is there a word for someone who always tends to be the catalyst to conflict, then backs out of said conflict with a victim mentality? For example provoking an argument and then saying something lik
Onomatopoeia for sirens (police, ambulance, fire engines) 3 I like the one suggested by the UD: Wee woo: is the sound a siren makes It is used in jest, to make fun of police cars, fire engines, ambulances, anything with a siren, really Popularized by short films Anyway I don't think there is an 'official' one
What did make love mean in the 1920s? - English Language Usage . . . From the early 1500's until perhaps the mid-1900's, the following sense of make love was common: (now archaic) To make amorous approaches to; to woo, romance, court To illustrate this sense, wiktionary provides five quotations, dated from 1501 through 1946 For example: 1815, Jane Austen, Emma: scarcely had she begun, scarcely had they passed the sweep-gate and joined the other carriage, than