Jilt vs Jist - What's the difference?
jilt | jist |
To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
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, 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.}}
(nonstandard) alternative form of just
*1838 , -Charles Dickens:
*:'Mister Muntlehiney,' said the man. 'Wot's come on him? Is he at home?'
*:'He is above stairs, I believe,' replied Kate, a little reassured by this inquiry. 'Do you want him?'
*:'No,' replied the visitor. 'I don't ezactly want him, if it's made a favour on. You can jist give him that 'ere card, and tell him if he wants to speak to ME, and save trouble, here I am; that's all.'
*1884 , -Mark Twain:
*:They get all their chawing by borrowing; they say to a fellow, "I wisht you'd len' me a chaw, Jack, I jist this minute give Ben Thompson the last chaw I had"—which is a lie pretty much everytime;
As nouns the difference between jilt and jist
is that jilt is a woman who jilts a lover while jist is (rare).As a verb jilt
is to cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.As an adverb jist is
(nonstandard) alternative form of just.jilt
English
Verb
(en verb)- 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.