What does "jilt" mean?

A woman who readily casts aside her lover.

What is a synonym for "jilt"?

Common synonyms include: abandon, actor, artful dodger, back out, bamboozler, befuddler.

//d͡ʒɪlt// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level

Noun

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
a woman who jilts a lover wordnet

Verb

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
cast aside capriciously or unfeelingly wordnet

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

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

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