agacerie

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noun

Coquetry; flirtatiousness.

OriginFrench agacerie →
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Meanings

nounagacerie (countable and uncountable, plural agaceries)

plural agaceries

  1. countableuncountableCoquetry; flirtatiousness.

    She was merry, witty, and even learned; and her manners were enticing and full of agacerie.

    1861, Martha Walker Freer, History of the reign of Henry IV, King of France and Navarre, page 59
    2 more examples

    The Duchess of Fitz-Fulke, who loved "tracasserie," Began to treat him with some small "agacerie."

    1824, Byron, Don Juan

    How can any man be well," replied the Count, holding his hand in such a position, as to make the performance of this little agacerie as difficult as possible ; " how can any man be well, overwhelmed by sorrow and disgrace as I am?

    1833, Frances Milton Trollope, The abbess: a romance - Volume 2, page 122

Origin

  1. Frenchagacerie
  2. Englishagacerie

Borrowed from French agacerie.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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