flirt vs play with

flirt

verb
  • To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions. 

  • To blurt out. 

  • To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling. 

  • To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way. 

  • To experiment, or tentatively engage, with; to become involved in passing with. 

adj
  • Flirtatious. 

noun
  • Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person. 

  • A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion 

  • A tentative or brief, passing engagement with something. 

  • A brief shower (of rain or snow). 

  • An act of flirting. 

play with

verb
  • To trick. 

  • To sexually stimulate a person or a person's erogenous zone. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: play with. 

  • To fiddle with; make small adjustments to, for example to something mechanical in order to improve its performance. 

How often have the words flirt and play with occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )