Flirting

“I assisted at the birth of that most significant word flirtation, which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world, and which has since received the sanction of our most accurate Laureate in one of his comedies.”

“Flirtation, attention without intention.”

“From a grave thinking mouser, she was grownThe gayest flirt that coach'd it round the town.”

“Ye belles, and ye flirts, and ye pert little things, The sexes at once to confound?”