Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - jilt
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(jilts, jilting, jilted) If someone is jilted, the person they are having a romantic relationship with suddenly ends the relationship in a surprising and upsetting way. (INFORMAL) She was jilted by her first fiance... Driven to distraction, he murdered the woman who jilted him... VERB: be V-ed, V n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. transitive verb Date: 1673 to drop (as a lover) capriciously or unfeelingly • ~er noun II. noun Etymology: alteration of jillet flirtatious girl Date: circa 1674 one who ~s a lover ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v.tr. abruptly reject or abandon (a lover etc.). --n. a person (esp. a woman) who jilts a lover. Etymology: 17th c.: orig. unkn. JIM CROW n. US 1 the practice of segregating Blacks. 2 offens. a Black. 3 an implement for straightening iron bars or bending rails by screw pressure. Derivatives Jim Crowism n. (in sense 1). Etymology: nickname ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. изменница, обманщица 2. увлечь и обмануть to jilt smb. for smb. else —- бросить кого-л. ради другого ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- 1673, from jilt (n.) "loose, unchaste woman; harlot," perhaps ult. from M.E. gille, a familiar or contemptuous term for a woman or girl, originally a shortened form of woman's name Gillian, popular form of Juliana. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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