different between jilt vs jist

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

Adverb

jist

1. Nonstandard spelling of just.
   • 1838, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:

     'Mister Muntlehiney,' said the man. 'Wot's come on him? Is he at home?'

     'He is above stairs, I believe,' replied Kate, a little reassured by this inquiry. 'Do you want him?'

     'No,' replied the visitor. 'I don't ezactly want him, if it's made a favour on. You can jist give him that 'ere card, and tell him if he wants to speak to ME, and save trouble, here I am; that's all.'

   • 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:

     They get all their chawing by borrowing; they say to a fellow, "I wisht you'd len' me a chaw, Jack, I jist this minute give Ben Thompson the last chaw I had"—which is a lie pretty much everytime;

Noun

jist (plural jists)

1. (rare) Alternative spelling of gist

Anagrams

• ISTJ, JITs, jits

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?j?st]
• Hyphenation: jist

Adjective

jist

1. masculine singular nominal predicative of jistý

Declension

Polabian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *eš?e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?jist/

Adverb

jist

1. still
2. yet

Slavomolisano

Etymology

From Ikavian Serbo-Croatian jisti; compare Ijekavian and Ekavian jesti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jîst/

Verb

jist impf

1. to eat
   • 2010, Natalina Spadanuda, “Le renard et le loup”:

References

• Breu, W., Mader Skender, M. B. & Piccoli, G. 2013. Oral texts in Molise Slavic (Italy): Acquaviva Collecroce. In Adamou, E., Breu, W., Drettas, G. & Scholze, L. (eds.). 2013. EuroSlav2010: Elektronische Datenbank bedrohter slavischer Varietäten in nichtslavophonen Ländern Europas – Base de données électronique de variétés slaves menacées dans des pays européens non slavophones. Konstanz: Universität / Paris: Lacito (Internet Publication).