jilt

noun
/d͡ʒɪlt/

Etymology

Contraction of jillet (“a giddy girl, a jill-flirt”).

Definitions

  1. A woman who readily casts aside her lover.

    • And has she been long a Jilt? has she practiſed the Trade for any Time?
  2. 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.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA