Jilt vs Jit - What's the difference?
jilt | jit |
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.}}
(computing, of bytecode optimizations) to perform an operation (usually compiling) Just-In-Time
As nouns the difference between jilt and jit
is that jilt is a woman who jilts a lover while jit is an inexperienced, foolhardy young man or jit can be a style of zimbabwean dance music (as the bhundu boys) played with drums and guitar.As verbs the difference between jilt and jit
is that jilt is to cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love while jit is (computing|transitive) to compile (program code for a virtual machine) immediately when needed, as part of the execution process.jilt
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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.
