jilt

See also: jilț

English edit

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

jilt (plural jilts)

A woman who jilts a lover.
- 1683, Thomas Otway, The Soldiers Fortune:
  And has she been long a Jilt? has she practiſed the Trade for any Time?

woman who jilts a lover

jilt (third-person singular simple present jilts, present participle jilting, simple past and past participle jilted)

(transitive) To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.
- 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:
  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.
- 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:
  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.

to jilt

Arabic: نَبَذَ (nabaḏa), أَهْمَلَ (ʔahmala)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 拋棄／抛弃 (zh) (pāoqì), 甩 (zh) (shuǎi)
Czech: dát kopačky (cs) pf (komu), pustit k vodě (cs) pf (koho), nechat plavat pf (koho)
Dutch: in de steek laten (nl), verlaten (nl), dumpen (nl)
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: pettää (fi)
French: plaquer (fr), quitter (fr), abandonner (fr)
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: den Laufpass geben (de) (lover), verlassen (de), fallen lassen, sitzen lassen, einen Korb geben, verladen (de)
Hungarian: elhagy (hu), otthagy (hu), faképnél hagy
Italian: piantare (it), rompere (it), dare buca (it)
Japanese: 振る (ja) (ふる, furu), ふる (ja) (furu), 振り捨てる (ふりすてる, furisuteru), 捨てる (ja) (すてる, suteru)
Russian: броса́ть (ru) impf (brosátʹ), бро́сить (ru) pf (brósitʹ)
Slovak: rozísť sa (s niekým), dať/dostať kopačky (slang), zahýbať (colloquial)
Spanish: dejar (es), cortar (es), plantar (es), dar calabazas (es)
Swedish: dumpa (sv)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Urdu: جھانسا دینا (ur)

Borrowed from Arabic جِلْد (jild, “skin, hide”).

jilt (definite accusative jilti, plural jiltler)

Declension of jilt