Reverse Dictionary: COURTING

ADJECTIVES
► PULLING THE CORD courting → 1879 Irish sl.
► SPOONS ON courting → M19 sl.

NOUNS
► ACCOSTING courting, paying addresses → 1791 Sc. obs.
► DRUERY courtship, love, especially sexual love; love-making, affection; often, illicit love → 1225 obs.
► GAME, THE courting the desired person with Black slang talk → 1950s African-American sl.
► JUNESEYING visiting one’s sweetheart, courting → 1899 Amer. dial.
► MASHING courting, flirting → L19 sl.
► MISSING courtship → M19 sl.
► MOOEY-MOOEY courting, love; lovemaking → 1942 US sl.
► NANNY GOATING courting → 1981 imperfect Cockney rhyming sl.
► QUEENING courting women or girls; flirting → E20 US sl.
► ROTTEN-LOGGING necking, courting → 1931 Amer. dial.
► SPARKING a courting → 1905 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SPARROW CATCHING looking for a girl to go out with → 1945 US Western sl. (Bk.)
► SPRUNTING a courting, a wooing → 1823 Sc.
► SUING paying court; the action of a suitor; entreaty, beseeching → 1591
► SUITING paying court to a woman → 1631 obs.
► SUITORING courtship, wooing → 1671
► UP-SITTING the custom of a man and woman sitting up together at night during courtship → 1930 Amer. dial.
► VETING courting → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

NOUNS – PERSON
► COURTRESS a woman who is courted by a suitor → 1577 obs.
► JAHOO a courting boy → 1939 Amer. dial.
► LOUNGE LIZARD a poor or miserly man who would rather court a woman in her own house than take her out on the town → 1920s sl
► MOCK-WEEAN a man who proves a false wooer → 1873 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PARLOUR ATHLETE a poor or miserly man who would rather court a woman in her own house than take her out on the town → 1910s US sl
► PARLOUR LIZARD a poor or miserly man who would rather court a woman in her own house than take her out on the town → 1910s US sl
► PARLOUR SNAKE a poor or miserly man who would rather court a woman in her own house than take her out on the town → 1910s US sl.
► SPOON a person who courts or flirts → 1882 sl.

PHRASES
► SPARROW CATCHING looking for a girl to go out with → 1945 US Western sl. (Bk.)

VERBS
► ACCOURT to court → 1596 obs.
► ADDRESS to court a person; esp. to pay court to a woman with a view to marriage, to woo → 1677 obs.
► BE AT THE NECKING to be courting → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► BE ON THE LOOK to be courting → 1952 Amer. dial.
► BUCK UP to court, to seek the affections of → 1832 Amer. dial.
► BUILD UP TO to court, to woo → 1896 Amer. dial.
► BUNDLE to court, to woo → 1941 Amer. dial.
► BUZZ to court, to have a date → 1928 Amer. dial.
► CAG-MAG to court, to keep company; to pay addresses to → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CALICO to court or spend time with a woman → 1887 Amer. dial.
► CALOOP to go courting; to kiss and cuddle → 1942 US sl.
► CARRY STRAWS to go courting → 1954 Amer. dial.
► CART OUT WITH SOMEONE to court someone → 1880 Cockney sl.
► CAT to court or pursue a woman → 1900 Amer. dial.
► CHASE to court a girl → 1935 S. Afr. sl.
► FACE to pay court to a woman → 1920s Irish sl.
► FRIENDS to court → 1965 Barbados
► GAL to go courting, to visit women → 1931 Amer. dial.
► GALLANTIZE to court, to play the gallant to a woman → 1728
► GO A-GALLIN to go courting → M19 US sl.
► GOAT WITH to court → 1950 Amer. dial.
► HEAT THE OLD BROTH to renew an old courtship → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► JEWLARK to court, to flirt → 1851 Amer. sl.
► KEEP COMPANY to court → 1905 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► KNOCK AROUND to pay court to → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► LAD to go courting or sweethearting; said of a woman → 1837 Sc. obs.
► LALLY-GAG ► LOLLY-GAG to court, to flirt, to make love → 1868 US colloq.
► MASH to court → 1905 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► MOT to court, to go out pursuing women → 19C sl.
► MUSH to court a woman in a sentimental manner, to ‘chat up’ → 1920s US sl.
► NOTICE to court → 1952 Amer. dial.
► PAY RESPECTS to court, to woo → 1897 Eng. dial.
► RIDE OUT WITH to court → 1941 Amer. dial.
► SET to court → 1896 Amer. dial.
► SET OUT to go courting; to seek a marriage partner → 1952 Amer. dial.
► SET UP to court a woman → 1941 Amer. dial.
► SET UP TO to pay court to a woman; broadly, to curry favour with → 1845 Amer. dial.
► SET UP WITH to court → 1871 Amer. dial.
► SIT UP TO to pay court to a woman; broadly, to curry favour with → 1845 Amer. dial.
► SPOON to court, to flirt, to behave amorously, to woo → 1831 sl.
► SUE to court, to woo → 1596 arch.
► SUIT to pay court to a woman → 1590 obs.
► SUITOR to court, to woo → 1672 now chiefly Eng. dial.
► TACKLE to court; to flirt → 1987 Trinidad and Tobago
► TALK to court, to woo; to engage in courtship, to contemplate marriage → 1895 Amer. dial.
► TING AFTER to court, to woo, to make love to → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TINKER AFTER to court, to woo; to make love to → 1900 Eng. dial.
► TROT to court a woman → 1942 NZ sl.
► WAIT ON ► WAIT UPON to court a woman → 1877 Amer. dial.
► WALE to court, to woo → 1703 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► WALK OUT WITH to court a woman; to go out socially with; to date → 1890 US
► WALK WITH to court a woman; to go out socially with; to date → 1827 Amer. dial.
► WOO to court, to flirt, to neck, or persuade to copulate → 1100
► WYLE to court, to woo → 1737 Sc.