"play hard to get" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: plays hard to get [present, singular, third-person], playing hard to get [participle, present], played hard to get [participle, past], played hard to get [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} play hard to get (third-person singular simple present plays hard to get, present participle playing hard to get, simple past and past participle played hard to get)
  1. (courtship) To be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest. Translations (to be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest): esittää vaikeasti tavoiteltavaa (Finnish), facerse de rogar (Galician), hacerse del rogar (Spanish), hacerse el difícil [masculine] (Spanish), hacerse la difícil [feminine] (Spanish), spela svår (Swedish), magdayuray (Tagalog), เล่นตัว (lên-dtuua) (Thai)

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