jilt
noun/d͡ʒɪlt/
Etymology
Contraction of jillet (“a giddy girl, a jill-flirt”).
Definitions
A woman who readily casts aside her lover.
- And has she been long a Jilt? has she practiſed the Trade for any Time?
To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover
To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.
- 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.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA