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Gilt vs Jilt - What's the difference?

gilt | jilt |

As nouns the difference between gilt and jilt

is that gilt is gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding while jilt is a woman who jilts a lover.

As verbs the difference between gilt and jilt

is that gilt is past tense of gild while jilt is to cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.

As an adjective gilt

is golden coloured.

gilt

English

Etymology 1

Cf. gold and German Geld

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable) Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding.
  • (uncountable, slang) Money.
  • (countable, finance) A security issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Golden coloured.
  • *, chapter=10
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.}}

    Etymology 2

    See .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (gild)
    • ----

    jilt

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A woman who jilts a lover.
    • (Otway)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.
  • * (John Locke) (1632-1705)
    • Tell a man passionately in love, that he is jilted ; bring a score of witnesses of the falsehood of his mistress, it is ten to one but three kind words of hers shall invalidate all their testimonies.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.}}