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Jilt vs Jolt - What's the difference?

jilt | jolt |

In lang=en terms the difference between jilt and jolt

is that jilt is to cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love while jolt is to shake; to move with a series of jerks.

As nouns the difference between jilt and jolt

is that jilt is a woman who jilts a lover while jolt is an act of jolting.

As verbs the difference between jilt and jolt

is that jilt is to cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love while jolt is to push or shake abruptly and roughly.

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.}}

    jolt

    English

    (wikipedia jolt)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
  • The bus jolted its passengers.
  • To knock sharply; to deal a blow to.
  • To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert; as, to jolt someone out of complacency
  • To shock emotionally.
  • Her untimely death jolted us all.
  • To shake; to move with a series of jerks.
  • The bus jolted along the stony path.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of jolting.
  • A surprise or shock.
  • (slang) A long prison sentence.
  • (slang) A narcotic injection.
  • Coordinate terms

    * (prison sentence) bit