Sentence:  One humiliation had succeeded another—the false smiles of the market sellers, the <WSD>curvetings</WSD> and oglings of the barmaids with whom his father flirted, the compliments and encouraging words of his father's friends. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  ("of a person") Caper, frisking, often with a nuance of flirtation.