Jilt
[dʒɪlt]
Definition
(noun.) a woman who jilts a lover.
(verb.) cast aside capriciously or unfeelingly; 'jilt a lover or a bride'.
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Definition
(n.) A woman who capriciously deceives her lover; a coquette; a flirt.
(v. t.) To cast off capriciously or unfeeling, as a lover; to deceive in love.
(v. i.) To play the jilt; to practice deception in love; to discard lovers capriciously.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Coquette, flirt.
v. a. Trick or deceive (by playing the jilt).
v. n. Play the jilt.
Typist: Rodger
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Flirt, coquette
Typist: Ralph
Definition
n. a woman who encourages a lover and then rejects him.—v.t. to encourage and then discard a lover.
Checker: Roderick
Examples
- Black-eyed little jilt! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He is a pleasant fellow, and would jilt you creditably. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- In plain English, it's your sovereign will and pleasure, Miss Verinder, to jilt my son? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The time has gone by, when you could mortify me by calling me a jilt. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Why, the man was weary of you, and would have jilted you, but that Dobbin forced him to keep his word. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It is too ridiculous that such a girl as Thomasin could so mortify us as to get jilted on the wedding day. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I know what it is to be jilted, Sir; I have endured that sort of thing three or four times. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- That would leave you time to misbehave, and then if I liked some one else better, I should have an excuse for jilting you. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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