Definitions for jilt

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Spelling: [jilt]
IPA: /dʒɪlt/

Jilt is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in jilt (ijlt).

Definitions for jilt

noun

  1. a woman who jilts a lover.

verb (used with object)

  1. to reject or cast aside (a lover or sweetheart), especially abruptly or unfeelingly.

Origin of jilt

1650-60; earlier jilt harlot, syncopated variant of jillet

Examples for jilt

We have been thinking that Jim was going to jilt you, Amelia!

If she be a jilt—Damn her, she is one—there's her name at the bottom on't.

Katherine to jilt Mr. Odd, and you so dangerously ill, Hilda.

She could not jilt him; there was something vulgar in the word!

To be so sordid a jilt, to betray me to such a beast as that!

The staid sober lover—let him take care the pretty Clara does not jilt him.

Put your hat straight, fan your eyes, and tell me all about this jilt of yours.

It means, jilt Miss Nicotine in haste, and repent at leisure.

Pox on her for a jilt, she lies, and has a mind to amuse and laugh at me a day or two longer.

It was abominable of him to jilt that girl, let alone proposing to me.

Word Value for jilt
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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