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jilt

  [jilt]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to reject or cast aside (a lover or sweetheart), esp. abruptly or unfeelingly.
–noun
2. a woman who jilts a lover.
Origin:
1650–60; earlier jilt harlot, syncopated var. of jillet

Related forms:
jilter, noun
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jilt   (jĭlt)   
tr.v.   jilt·ed, jilt·ing, jilts
To deceive or drop (a lover) suddenly or callously.
n.  One who discards a lover.

[Possibly from obsolete jilt, harlot, alteration of gillot, diminutive of gille, woman, girl, from Middle English; see gill4.]
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Word Origin & History

jilt  (v.)
"to deceive after holding out hopes," 1673, from jilt (n.) "loose, unchaste woman; harlot" (1672), perhaps ult. from M.E. gille "lass, wench," a familiar or contemptuous term for a woman or girl (c.1460), originally a shortened form of woman's name Gillian, popular form of Juliana.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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