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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : jilt |
| Phonetic Transcription : dʒɪlt |
Definition of jilt
Origin :- "to deceive (especially after holding out hopes), cheat, trick," 1660s, from the same source as jilt (n.). Related: Jilted; jilting.
- verb abandon, betray
- It means, jilt Miss Nicotine in haste, and repent at leisure.
- Extract from : « Out of the Depths » by Robert Ames Bennet
- The staid sober lover—let him take care the pretty Clara does not jilt him.
- Extract from : « Frank Fairlegh » by Frank E. Smedley
- She could not jilt him; there was something vulgar in the word!
- Extract from : « The Island Pharisees » by John Galsworthy
- Katherine to jilt Mr. Odd, and you so dangerously ill, Hilda.
- Extract from : « The Dull Miss Archinard » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
- Put your hat straight, fan your eyes, and tell me all about this jilt of yours.
- Extract from : « A Bottle in the Smoke » by Milne Rae
- To be so sordid a jilt, to betray me to such a beast as that!
- Extract from : « Thomas Otway » by Thomas Otway
- Pox on her for a jilt, she lies, and has a mind to amuse and laugh at me a day or two longer.
- Extract from : « Thomas Otway » by Thomas Otway
- We have been thinking that Jim was going to jilt you, Amelia!
- Extract from : « Alas! » by Rhoda Broughton
- If she be a jilt—Damn her, she is one—there's her name at the bottom on't.
- Extract from : « The Recruiting Officer » by George Farquhar
- It was abominable of him to jilt that girl, let alone proposing to me.
- Extract from : « A Top-Floor Idyl » by George van Schaick
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