jilt
See also: jilț
English
Etymology
Contracted from Scots jillet (“a giddy girl, a jill-flirt”).
Pronunciation
Noun
jilt (plural jilts)
- A woman who jilts a lover.
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Translations
woman who jilts a lover
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Verb
jilt (third-person singular simple present jilts, present participle jilting, simple past and past participle jilted)
- (transitive) To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.
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- Tell a man passionately in love, that he is jilted; bring a score of witnesses of the falsehood of his mistress, it is ten to one but three kind words of hers shall invalidate all their testimonies.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:
- The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.
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Translations
to jilt
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Turkmen
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic جِلْد (jild, “skin, hide”).
Noun
jilt (definite accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])
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