jilt

Etymology

Contracted from Scots jillet (“a giddy girl, a jill-flirt”).

noun

  1. A woman who jilts a lover.
    And has she been long a Jilt? has she practiſed the Trade for any Time? 1683, Thomas Otway, The Soldiers Fortune

verb

  1. (transitive) To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.

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