Contraction of jillet (“a giddy girl, a jill-flirt”).
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A woman who readily casts aside her lover.
And has she been long a Jilt? has she practiſed the Trade for any Time? 1683, Thomas Otway, The Soldiers Fortune:
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ka მატყუარა (woman who jilts a lover) · ru обма́нщица (woman who jilts a lover) · ru изме́нница (woman who jilts a lover) · ka მოღალატე (woman who jilts a lover) · ar نابذة لحبيبها (woman who jilts a lover) · eo forlasito (woman who jilts a lover) · fi petollinen nainen (woman who jilts a lover) · hu szerelmesét elhagyó nő (woman who jilts a lover)
Contraction of jillet (“a giddy girl, a jill-flirt”).
Meanings
(transitive) To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.
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. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
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. 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 4, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book I, page 20: