a woman who flirts lightheartedly with men to win their admiration and affection.
Today the words are much more harsh and flat. If the hobby is to flirt, the reputation is a tease. Meaning of words have changed since the time of the coquette.
People have become loose with definitions letting one word mean many different things that may be confusing.
Slang will always change but staple words shouldn't. If we start changing the meanings, we start losing the real definition.
Silly are the goddy tawdry maudlin for they shall christgeewhiz bow down before him: bedead old men, priest and prester, babeling a pitterpatternoster: no word is still the word, but, a loafward has become lord. -- Ronald Suffield, "The Tenth Beatitude"
Suffield is trying to get society to hold on to the meanings of words and not lose them to trendy slang. Great was the day that we used five dollar words.
New words are constantly entering the English language, Neologism, through slang and jargon, along with borrowing from other languages. The word "blog" is a neologism due to advancements in technology.
Expand the dictionary to a whole library of books if that's what it takes to make a complete thought, but keep the use of antique words that have such richer and deeper meanings.
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