Etymology

coquet

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Today it means: A flirtatious female; a coquette. Full definition →

French coquet
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromcoquet“little cockerel”
  2. English todaycoquet

Borrowed from French coquet (“little cockerel”), from coq (“cockerel”) + -et (“masculine diminutive suffix”).

Words from the same roots

Frenchcoquet all →

cocket

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