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Jilt vs Milt - What's the difference?

jilt | milt |

In lang=en terms the difference between jilt and milt

is that jilt is to cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love while milt is to impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

As nouns the difference between jilt and milt

is that jilt is a woman who jilts a lover while milt is the spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.

As verbs the difference between jilt and milt

is that jilt is to cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love while milt is to impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

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.}}

    milt

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
  • *, II.12:
  • we see that certaine apprehensions engender a blushing-red colour, others a palenesse; that some imagination doth only worke in the milt , another in the braine.
  • * 1983 , Robert Nye, The Facts of Life :
  • Adam Kadmon had pneumonia. Friar Goat cured it by tying a bullock’s milt to the soles of the lad’s feet, and burying the milt afterwards. Adam Kadmon immediately contracted the thrush.
  • Fish semen.
  • Derived terms

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    Synonyms

    * (fish semen) soft roe, white roe

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.