The word 'flirt' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to mean behave amorously without serious intent, as in the sentence: She pretended to be just friends, but we all knew they were flirting.
At least now young girls won't think the way to get ahead is to flirt with the boss.
While these speculations are premature and flirt with wishful thinking, it makes geostrategic sense for the two adversaries to set aside their mutual hostility to address common concerns in the Middle East.
Really, if was willing to flirt my way out of trouble more often in life, I'd have saved myself a lot of cash.
The Thorntons try to fix him up with right-on sugar-boycotting babe Barbara Spooner (Romola Garai), but he's trapped under the weight of his cares and doesn't have the energy to flirt.
Last year, the hemline of shorts began to rise above the knee and flirt with the male "private parts": immediately anti-men's shorts sentiments exploded across the internet debating whether men should wear short-shorts, or even shorts at all.
Out canvassing in Ramsgate on Thursday, he tried to charm and flirt with almost everyone he saw, taking the phone from one woman and telling her husband: "Hi Melvyn, I'm rather busy with your wife at the moment".
It is where young banlieusards come to hang out, meet the opposite sex, shop, smoke, show-off and flirt – all the stuff that young people like to do.
Gracin scored three top five singles in the year after his Idol run, including the No 1 hit Nothin' To Lose, a fast-rapping confection with a refrain – "Breaker breaker one-nine she's a big old flirt" – that's still rather charming a decade later.
Californians, meanwhile, continue to flirt with outright legalisation of the weed.
Even European governments that flirt with protectionism are tempted by an economic stimulus plan that costs no public money.
Iran has also helped Turkey in its battle against the PKK though it continues to flirt with hardliners who oppose any deal with the Turkish government.
