flirtation, n. 1. coquetry, flirting, vamping, affectation of love, gallantry; trifling, toying, dallying, dalliance, philandering; wooing, Inf. sparking, courting, billing and cooing, necking, petting, Inf. spooning, serenading; googoo eyes, sheep's eyes, wolf-whistle, wink, ogle, side glance, double take.
2. affair, amour, romance, intrigue,
flirtatious, adj. flirty, coquettish, coy, dallying; wanton, loose, fast-and-loose; philandering, SI. wolfish,
flit, v. 1. dart, flirt, hop, volitate; fly, soar, sail, zoom, sweep, skim, skim along.
2. flutter, flitter, flap, beat, wave; flick, flicker, dance; quiver, quaver.
3. (all of time) fly by, pass swiftly, pass by or away quickly, fleet; elapse, lapse, slip, slide, glide; fade, melt; vanish, disappear, evaporate, go up in smoke.
-n. 4. flutter, flicker, flitter, flap, beat, beating; waver, quiver, quaver, dance.
5. Slang, homosexual, homophile, homosexualist; All Derog. SI. homo, queer, faggot, fag, fruit, pansy, fairy.
flitting, adj. 1. darting, flirting, skimming, fleeting, passing; fast, rapid, fleet, quick, brisk, meteoric, mercurial.
2. transient, transitory, momentary, ephemeral, shortlived, temporary, brief.
3. fluttering, flittering, flapping, beating, waving, flickering, dancing; quivering, quavering.
float, v. 1. buoy, ride, swim, rest on, waft; be buoyant, be buoyed up, be suspended on.
2. drift, sail, glide, slip along; hover, move lightly, move gracefully.
3. launch, instigate, initiate, get going, push off; promote, sell, purvey.
4. vacillate, oscillate, fluctuate, tergiversate, shillyshally.
5. wander aimlessly, mill around or about, meander, SI. bum around, SI. hang out.
-n. 6. raft, pontoon, buoy; life preserver, lifesaver.
7. parade display, pageant unit, spectacle, show, diorama.
floating, adj. 1. buoyant, buoyed up, natant, swimming, afloat; drifting, borne along, suspended.
2. unfixed, movable, unsettled, migratory, wandering, circulating; shifting, variable, fluctuating.
3. Finance, in circulation, in use, reachable, accessible,
flock, n. 1. fold, herd, drove, pack; bevy, flight,
gaggle; brood, litter, hatch; school, shoal; swarm.
2. multitude, host, horde, throng; crowd, press, crush, mass; mob, rabble, ruck, rout.
-v. 3. gather, foregather, meet, assemble, collect, come together, congregate; crowd, throng, swarm, mill; cluster, bunch, clot; flock together, herd together, band together, club together, SI. gang up with,
flog, v. whip, horsewhip, flail, thrash, thresh, flagellate, Inf. leather, Inf. hide, Inf. tan [s.o.'s] hide; strap, belt, switch, make [s.o.] run the gauntlet; birch, Inf whale, Inf. welt, cane, club, cudgel, fustigate, bastinado; beat, pound, buffet, pummel, belabor, lay on, Inf. lick, Inf. larrup, Inf. wallop, SI. lambaste, SI. clobber,
flogging, n. whipping, horsewhipping, thrashing, flailing, flagellation, forty lashes, lashing, switching, the gauntlet, Inf. hiding, Inf tanning,
flood, n. 1. deluge, inundation, alluvion; freshet, flash flood, spate; overflow, spillover; torrent, cataract; tidal wave, high tides, tsunami; cloudburst, downpour; gullywasher, Inf. gully-whomper, monsoon.