different between jilt vs jit

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Acronym of just in time.

Alternative forms

• JIT

Verb

jit (third-person singular simple present jits, present participle jitting, simple past and past participle jitted)

1. (computing, transitive) To compile (program code for a virtual machine) immediately when needed, as part of the execution process.

Etymology 2

Shorting of jitterbug.

Noun

jit (plural jits)

1. (US, originally prison slang, derogatory) An inexperienced, foolhardy young man.

Etymology 3

Noun

jit (plural jits)

1. (US, slang) A nickel.
   • 1993, James T. Farrell, Studs Lonigan

     "Well, what do you say, Vince? You'll let me take a jit, won't you? […] I'll give you the jit back with a nickel interest," coaxed Davey.

Etymology 4

Noun

jit (uncountable)

1. A style of Zimbabwean dance music played with drums and guitar.

Alternative forms

• jiti

Anagrams

• TIJ, TJI

Spanish

Noun

jit m (plural jits)

1. (baseball) hit

West Flemish

Adjective

jit (comparative jitter, superlative jitst)

1. hot