Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
agacerie | (Fr.) an allurement, coquetry. |
amorousness | the quality of being amorous. |
amourette | (Fr.) a brief or unimportant love affair. |
bedright | (Shakesp.) the privilege or due of the marriage bed. |
bedrite | the privilege or due of the marriage-bed. |
betroth | to engage to marry. |
bridal | related to brides (noun) a wedding |
bridally | (Adv.) BRIDAL, related to brides. |
bride | a woman about to be married or newly married; (verb) to act the bride. |
bridemaid | a bridesmaid. |
bridewealth | in tribal societies, etc, a price paid (usu in kind) to a bride's family by the bridegroom. |
broose | (Scots) a race at a wedding. |
brouze | (Scott) a race at a wedding. |
concubinage | the cohabitation of persons not legally married. |
concubitancy | a custom by which marriage between certain persons is obligatory. |
confarreate | relating to confarreation. |
confarreation | a Roman patrician mode of marriage, in which a spelt cake was offered up. |
coquet | (Fr.) to flirt, to dally. |
coquetry | a flirtatious act or attitude. |
coquettish | practicing or exhibiting coquetry; alluring. |
coquettishly | (Adv.) COQUETTISH, practicing or exhibiting coquetry. |
coquettishness | the state of being coquettish. |
corinthianise | (Arch.) to be licentious. |
corinthianize | (Arch.) to be licentious. |
courtship | the act of wooing a woman in order to persuade her to become one's wife. |
dalliance | flirtation. |
espousal | a marriage ceremony. |
fiancailles | (Fr.) betrothal. |
flirt | one who flirts (verb) to behave amorously without serious intent |
flirtation | the act of flirting. |
flirtatious | given to flirting. |
flirtatiously | (Adv.) FLIRTATIOUS, given to flirting. |
flirtatiousness | the state of being flirtatious. |
flirter | one who flirts. |
flirting | the act of flirting. |
flirtingly | (Adv.) FLIRTING. |
flirtish | (Obs.) given to flirting. |
flirty | flirtatious. |
footsie | flirtation involving the touching together of feet. |
footsy | flirtation involving the touching together of feet. |
gallant | brave (noun) a dashing, debonair young man; (verb) to pay court to or flirt with (a woman); esp attend or act as an escort to (a woman) |
handfast | a betrothal; (verb, arch.) to betroth. |
honeymonth | (Obs.) honeymoon; (verb) to spend one's honeymoon. |
honeymoon | the first weeks after marriage, commonly spent on holiday; (verb) to go on honeymoon. |
infare | a housewarming after a wedding. |
inmarriage | endogamy. |
kneesies | the flirtatious touching of knees under the table. |
lobola | (Nguni) an African custom whereby the bridegroom's family makes a payment in cattle or cash to the bride's family before marriage. |
lobolo | (Nguni) an African custom whereby the bridegroom's family makes a payment in cattle or cash to the bride's family before marriage. |
minauderie | (Fr.) coquetry. |
monogamist | one who practices or upholds monogamy. |
monogamous | relating to monogamy. |
monogamously | (Adv.) MONOGAMOUS, relating to monogamy. |
monogamy | marriage with one person at a time. |
nikah | in Islamic marriage, the contract between bride and bridegroom. |
nuptial | relating to weddings (noun) a wedding ceremony |
nuptially | (Adv.) NUPTIAL, relating to a wedding. |
outmarriage | marriage outside the social group. |
patrilocal | designating a form of marriage in which the wife goes to live with the husband's group. |
patrilocally | (Adv.) PATRILOCAL, of a form of marriage in which the wife goes to live with the husband's group. |
polygamise | to practise polygamy. |
polygamize | to practise polygamy. |
prenuptial | an arrangement made or occurring before marriage. |
romance | a love affair; (verb) to woo. |
sangeet | (Hindi) a kind of pre-wedding party in a Hindi or Sikh marriage. |
smirting | flirting among those smoking outside a nonsmoking area. |
smoocher | one who smooches. |
smoodge | (Aust. sl.) to kiss closely. |
smooge | (Aust. sl.) to kiss closely. |
spammie | (Dial.) a lovebite. |
sponsalia | nuptials, marriage. |
subarration | an ancient form of betrothal in which pledges of money, rings, etc were given by the man to the woman. |
subarrhation | an ancient form of betrothal in which pledges of money, rings, etc were given by the man to the woman. |
troth | faith, fidelity; (verb, Shakesp.) to betroth. |
trothplight | (Arch.) betrothal; (verb) to betroth. |
uncoquettish | not coquettish. |
wanton | thoughtlessly cruel (noun) an immoral person; (verb) to behave in a wanton fashion |
wantonly | (Adv.) WANTON, thoughtlessly cruel. |
womanise | to pursue or engage in casual sexual encounters with women. |
womaniser | one who engages in casual sexual encounters with women. |
womanize | to pursue or engage in casual sexual encounters with women. |
womanizer | one who engages in casual sexual encounters with women. |
woo | to court; to seek the support of. |
wooable | capable of being wooed. |
wooer | one that woos. |
wooingly | (Adv.) WOOING. seductive. |