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Jilt

//d͡ʒɪlt// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A woman who readily casts aside her lover.

    "And has she been long a Jilt? has she practiſed the Trade for any Time?"

  2. 2
    a woman who jilts a lover wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love. transitive

    "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."

  2. 2
    cast aside capriciously or unfeelingly wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Contraction of jillet (“a giddy girl, a jill-flirt”).

Etymology 2

Contraction of jillet (“a giddy girl, a jill-flirt”).

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