"come on to" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: comes on to [present, singular, third-person], coming on to [participle, present], came on to [past], come on to [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|come<,,came,come> on to|head=come on to}} come on to (third-person singular simple present comes on to, present participle coming on to, simple past came on to, past participle come on to)
  1. (transitive, informal) To make a romantic or sexual advance to. Tags: informal, transitive Synonyms: hit on, make a pass Derived forms: come-on [noun] Related terms: come on [verb] Translations (make a romantic or sexual advance to): flirten (Dutch), iskeä (Finnish), yrittää (Finnish), flirttailla (Finnish), lähestyä (Finnish), lähennellä (Finnish), draguer [slang] (French), anmachen (German), anflirten (German), kikezd (with -val/-vel) (Hungarian), hajt (note: with -ra/-re) (Hungarian), flörtöl (Hungarian), flirtare (Italian), 轻薄 (qīngbó) (Mandarin), 吃豆腐 (chī dòufu) (Mandarin), flirtować (Polish), podrywać (Polish), dar em cima [Brazil] (Portuguese), закадри́ть (zakadrítʹ) (Russian), флиртовать (flirtovatʹ) (Russian), ухаживать (uxaživatʹ) (Russian), tirar los tejos [Spain] (Spanish), insinuarse (Spanish), pinchar con alguien (Spanish), tirar la onda [Mexico] (Spanish), ligar (Spanish), stöta (på) (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-come_on_to-en-verb-1gHR38md Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "on", English phrasal verbs formed with "to", Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 81 10 8 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "on": 68 18 13 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "to": 68 18 13 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 73 15 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 76 14 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 59 23 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 71 17 12 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 60 22 18 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 69 19 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 76 14 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 69 18 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 71 17 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 64 20 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 77 14 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 69 18 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 69 17 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 72 16 12 Disambiguation of 'make a romantic or sexual advance to': 99 1 0
  2. (slang, transitive) To harass (someone). Tags: slang, transitive
    Sense id: en-come_on_to-en-verb-xGLL5jaH
  3. To start to.
    Sense id: en-come_on_to-en-verb-zdh5dibq

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "He was really coming on to me at the party.",
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          "text": "Sometimes I go to bed alone, horny and frustrated, angry at myself for not being more assertive and coming on to a new man who excited me.",
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        "To make a romantic or sexual advance to."
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          "word": "flirten"
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          "word": "draguer"
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          "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
          "word": "anflirten"
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          "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
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          "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
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          "roman": "qīngbó",
          "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
          "word": "轻薄"
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          "roman": "chī dòufu",
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          "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
          "word": "flirtować"
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          "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
          "word": "podrywać"
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          "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
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          "word": "dar em cima"
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          "_dis1": "99 1 0",
          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "zakadrítʹ",
          "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
          "word": "закадри́ть"
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          "_dis1": "99 1 0",
          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "flirtovatʹ",
          "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
          "word": "флиртовать"
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          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "uxaživatʹ",
          "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
          "word": "ухаживать"
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          "_dis1": "99 1 0",
          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
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          "word": "tirar los tejos"
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          "_dis1": "99 1 0",
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          "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
          "word": "insinuarse"
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          "word": "pinchar con alguien"
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          "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
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          "_dis1": "99 1 0",
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          "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
          "word": "ligar"
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          "_dis1": "99 1 0",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
          "word": "stöta (på)"
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          "text": "It came on to snow after dusk.",
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      "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
      "word": "yrittää"
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      "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
      "word": "lähennellä"
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      "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
      "word": "anmachen"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
      "word": "anflirten"
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      "word": "flörtöl"
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      "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
      "word": "flirtare"
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      "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
      "word": "flirtować"
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      "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
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      "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
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      "word": "dar em cima"
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      "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
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      "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
      "word": "pinchar con alguien"
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      "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
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      "word": "tirar la onda"
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      "sense": "make a romantic or sexual advance to",
      "word": "ligar"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-09-20 using wiktextract (af5c55c and 66545a6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.