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jilt
English
Etymology
Contracted from Scots jillet (“a giddy girl, a jill-flirt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??lt/
- Rhymes: -?lt
Noun
jilt (plural jilts)
- 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?
- 1683, Thomas Otway, The Soldiers Fortune
Translations
Verb
jilt (third-person singular simple present jilts, present participle jilting, simple past and past participle jilted)
- (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 ?)
- skin
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jolt
English
Etymology
Perhaps from Middle English jollen (“to stagger, knock, batter”), itself perhaps a variant of Middle English chollen (“to strike, juggle, do tricks”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??lt/, IPA(key): /d???lt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d?o?lt/
- Rhymes: -?lt, -??lt
Verb
jolt (third-person singular simple present jolts, present participle jolting, simple past and past participle jolted)
- (transitive) To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
- The bus jolted its passengers at every turn.
- (transitive) To knock sharply
- (transitive) To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert
- I jolted her out of complacency.
- (transitive) To shock emotionally.
- Her untimely death jolted us all.
- (intransitive) To shake; to move with a series of jerks.
- The car jolted along the stony path.
Derived terms
- jolter
- jolthead
- jolting
- joltproof
- jolty
Translations
Noun
jolt (plural jolts)
- An act of jolting.
- A surprise or shock.
- (slang) A long prison sentence.
- (slang) A narcotic injection.
Coordinate terms
- (prison sentence): bit
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