different between gilt vs jilt

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lt
• IPA^(key): /???t/
• Homophone: guilt

Etymology 1

Formed in English from the verb gild (“to cover in gold”). Compare gold and German Geld.

Noun

gilt (usually uncountable, plural gilts)

1. (uncountable) Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding.
   1. (uncountable, by extension) Gold-colored paint or other coating.
2. (uncountable, slang) Money.
3. (countable, finance) A security issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged)
4. (obsolete, uncountable) A gilded object, an object covered with gold.

Derived terms

• take the gilt off the gingerbread

Translations

Adjective

gilt (comparative more gilt, superlative most gilt)

1. Golden coloured.

Translations

Verb

gilt

1. simple past tense and past participle of gild

Related terms

• parcel gilt

References

• “gilt, n.2.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2018

Etymology 2

See geld.

Noun

gilt (plural gilts)

1. A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.

Translations

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lt

Verb

gilt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of gillen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of gillen

Anagrams

• ligt

German

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???lt/

Verb

gilt

1. inflection of gelten:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Karakalpak

Noun

gilt

1. key

Old Norse

Adjective

gilt

1. strong neuter nominative singular of gildr
2. strong neuter accusative singular of gildr

English

Etymology

Contracted from Scots jillet (“a giddy girl, a jill-flirt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??lt/

• Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

jilt (plural jilts)

1. A woman who jilts a lover.
   • 1683, Thomas Otway, The Soldiers Fortune

     And has she been long a Jilt? has she practi?ed the Trade for any Time?

Translations

Verb

jilt (third-person singular simple present jilts, present participle jilting, simple past and past participle jilted)

1. (transitive) To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.

   • 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.

Translations

Turkmen

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ?????? (jild, “skin, hide”).

Noun

jilt (definite accusative ?, plural ?)

1. skin