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Jilt   /dʒɪlt/   Listen
Jilt

noun
1.
A woman who jilts a lover.





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"Jilt" Quotes from Famous Books



... pledge. She wondered how long he would be true to Zada, or she to him. Charity had suffered the disgrace of being insufficient for her husband's contentment, and now Jim must undergo the same disgrace with Kedzie. It was a sort of post-nuptial jilt. ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes
... riff-raff are quite sincere. Thats a mistake. Tramps are often shameless; but theyre never sincere. Swells—if I may use that convenient name for the upper classes—play much more with their cards on the table. If you tell the young lady that you want to jilt her, and she calls you a pig, the tone of the transaction may leave much to be desired; but itll be less Camberwellian than if you ...
— Fanny's First Play • George Bernard Shaw
... know you are alive, I shall not care who thinks me ridiculous or who calls me silly; I shall feel lonely, but lonely merely because I cannot live with you. I shall jilt poor dear Pacullus, who is as good a man and as good a fellow as ever lived, and I shall stick to my widowhood until I die or Commodus joins the company of the gods and we can arrange for your full rehabilitation and the restoration ...
— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White


Words linked to "Jilt" :   leave, adult female, woman


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