Jilt

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dʒɪlt/Rhymes: -ɪlt

Origin

Contracted from Scots jillet ("a giddy girl, a jill-flirt").

Full definition of jilt

Noun

1. A woman who jilts a lover.

Verb

1. (transitive) To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.
• John Locke (1632-1705)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, The Celebrity Chapter 8, 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.