Jilt

Definition: Jilt

Jilt

Noun

1. A woman who jilts a lover.

Verb

1. Cast aside capriciously or unfeelingly; "jilt a lover or a bride".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "jilt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1677. (references)

Note: Jilt \Jilt\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Jilted; Jilting.]. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

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Deceiver

Noun: deceiver; (deceive; ); dissembler, hypocrite; sophist, Pharisee, Jesuit, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Joseph Surface, Tartufe, Janus; serpent, snake in the grass, Judas, wolf in sheep's clothing; jilt; shuffler, stool pigeon.

Deception

Verb: deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the eyes; dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, bamboozle, flimflam, hornswoggle; trick.

Disappointment

Disappoint; frustrate, discomfit, crush, defeat (failure); crush one's hope, dash one's hope, balk one's hope, disappoint one's hope, blight one's hope, falsify one's hope, defeat one's hope, discourage; balk, jilt, bilk; play one false, play a trick; dash the cup from the lips, tantalize; dumfound, dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumfounder (astonish).

Improbity

Verb: be dishonest; Adjective: play false; break one's word, break one's faith, break one's promise; jilt, betray, forswear; shuffle; (lie); live by one's wits, sail near the wind.

Crosswords: Jilt

Turkmen (binding, jacket).

The Jilt (1909)

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Books

• Jilt Trip (Harlequin Temptation, No 543) (reference)

• The Jilt and Other Stories (Complete Writings of Charles Reade (17 Volumes)) (reference)

• The Works of Aphra Behn: The Fair Jilt and Other Short Stories (Vol 3) (reference)

• Widowed Without Warning: Gifts Held by Jilt (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Albanian

lë (allow, break off, chuck, cut, drop, dump, give up, grant, jump, leave, let, let by, Miss, omit, overjump, overleap, Park, pass up, permit, put, quit, release, relinquish, resign, tek pupa, vacate, yield), grua mendjelehtë (hare-brained woman, light-o'-love, minx), femër (dam, distaff, doe, female, fertile, hen, Jenny, Judy, lady, mate, piece, pistil, woman), braktis (cast away, cast off, chuck, desert, drop out, fall away, forsake, lay down, let go, relinquish, renounce, tek pupa, throw over). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هجر أو نبذ الحبيب, ‏تنبذ المرأة محبا, ‏الناكثة من تنكث بعهد الحب. (various references)

Bulgarian 

флиртаджийка (flirt), кокетка (coquette, flirt, kitten, minx, puss), момиче което зарязва любимия си. (various references)

Czech

dát košem. (various references)

Farsi 

فریفتن (Bewitch, Captivate, Charm, Deceive, Decoy, Doodle, Enchant, Entice, Hustle, Intrigue, Inveigle, Lure, Poop, Seduce, Skunk, Tempt, Wile), ناگهان معشوق رارهاکردن , بیوفا (Untrue). (various references)

French

quitter, plaquer, délaissée, abandon. (various references)

German

sitzenlassen (abandon, keep down, leave in the lurch, leave waiting, stand up, walk out on), einen Laufpaß geben, den laufpass geben (slough off). (various references)

Greek 

κυνηγώ (chase, course, go after 1, go after 2, hound, hunt, make after, prey on, run after, shoot, stalk), κοκέτα (coquette), παρατέω, ερωτότροποσ γυνή (vamp), απορίπτω εραστήν. (various references)

Hungarian

kacér nõ (flirt), kacér nő (coquette, flirt), elhagy (abandon, desert, forsake, forsaken, forsook, leave, leave behind, let down, omit, quit, sank, sunk, throw over, to abandon, to desert, to drop out, to fall off, to forsake, to jilt, to leave behind, to mislay, to sink, to throw over), dob (barrel, cast, drum, fling, launch, sling, throw, to bung, to ground, to heave, to jilt, to launch, to let fly, to pitch, to shy). (various references)

Italian

piantare un'innamorato, lasciar in asso; civettare, frascheggiare, civettare (Coquet, flirt), civetta (coquette, hussy, minx, owl, owlet). (various references)

Manx

treigeil (abandon, betray, defect, departure, desert, deviation, evacuate, evacuation, fall away, forsake; repudiation, lay aside, maroon, rat on, repudiate, strand, throw over), stritlag (drab, slattern, trollop), flid (flirt, fly-by-night, nitwit, silly person). (various references)

Pig Latin

iltjay.(various references)

Portuguese

dar o fora em (scat, shove off, take to one's heels). (various references)

Romanian

pãrãsi (abandon, cast off, cease, clear, desert, drop, evacuate, fail, flee, forsake, leave, quit, reject, relinquish, renounce, surrender, throw, vacate), lãsa cu buza umflatã, iubitã necredincioasã, cochetã (coquette, flirt, minx). (various references)

Russian 

увлечь и обмануть. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nevernik (atheist, disbeliever, infidel, kafir, miscreant, non believer, nonbeliever, traitor, unbeliever), nevernica, napustiti (abandon, cast off, desert, desolate, drop, drop out, fall away, forsake, give away, leave, quit, run out, take leave of, throw over, vacate, walk out). (various references)

Spanish

dar calabazas. (various references)

Swedish

trolös (disloyal, faithless, perfidious, recreant, treacherous, unfaithful), svika (belie, betray, deceive, desert, disappoint, fail, falsify, frustrate, let down), kvinna (female, lady, she, woman), ge på båten (throw over), övergiva (abandon, desert, discard, drop, forsake, jack in, jettison, plant, slough off, throw over, throw overboard, yield), överge (abandon, desert, discard, drop, forsake, jack in, jettison, leave, plant, slough off, throw over, throw overboard, yield). (various references)

Thai

สลั�"ทิ้ง. (various references)

Turkish

terketmek (cede, desert, desolate, discard, disuse, ditch, expose, fall off, flee, forsake, jack in, leave, relinquish, revolt from, throw over, void, walk away, walk on, walk out of, walk out on), fındıkçı kız, evlenmekten vazgeçmek, evlenme sözü verip vazgeçen kız, bırakmak (abandon, allow, break oneself of a habit, chuck, consign, demise, discontinue, dismiss, dispose of, drop, drop in, drop out, edge out, expose, fail, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, grow, hand down, jack in, kick, lay down, lay off, leave, leave off, let, let go, let smb. have it, offload, outgrow, plant, put, put away, put off, put to, quit, release, release one's hold, relinquish, renounce, resign, revolt from, stop, surrender, take one's farewell of, throw over, unclasp, unlearn, unloose, walk out). (various references)

Ukrainian

кокетка (coquette, flirt, minx, puss), повія (baggage, bawd, call girl, cat, chippy, harlot, quean, streetwalker, strumpet, trollop, unfortunate, wagtail, whore, witch). (various references)

Vietnamese 

kẻ tình phụ. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "jilt": jilted, jilter, jilters, jilting, jilts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Jilt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ilt, jalk, jalt, jault, jealt, jeit, jela, jelh, jelo, jelq, jelt, jelty, Jeltz, jept, jict, jift, jil, jila, jild, jile, jilk, jiln, jilo, jilq, jils, jilte, jilty, jiltz, Jily, jint, jipt, jirt, jist, jit, jitf, jith, jitt, jity, jitz, jiul, Jli, jul. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lit, til.

-2 letters: it, li, ti.

+1 letter: jilts.

+2 letters: jilted, jilter.

+3 letters: jetlike, jilters, jilting, jointly, jollity, joltier, joltily, jolting.

+4 letters: jailbait, jauntily, jetliner, jolliest, joltiest, jostling, jovialty, jowliest, jubilant, jubilate, justling, multijet.

+5 letters: jacklight, jangliest, jetliners, jiggliest, jingliest, jointedly, jollities, joviality, jubilated, jubilates, jungliest.