Meaning

1 senses
  1. A woman who readily casts aside her lover.

    изме́нницаizménnica, обма́нщицаobmánščica

    a woman who jilts a lover

Examples

7 sentences
  1. Tom jilted Mary at the altar.

  2. Tom was jilted by Mary.

  3. Mary was jilted by Tom.

  4. Tom jilted Mary.

  5. Tom jilted Mary for Alice.

Translations

1 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
woman who jilts a lover:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: jilts
Singularjilt
Pluraljilts

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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