different between jilt vs begeck

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

English

Etymology

From Middle Dutch begecken or Middle Low German begecken (“to deride”), equivalent to be- +? geck. More at geek.

Verb

begeck (third-person singular simple present begecks, present participle begecking, simple past and past participle begecked)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To deceive; disappoint; jilt.

Related terms

• begunk

Noun

begeck (plural begecks)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) A disappointment; trick.