jilt
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A woman who readily casts aside her lover.
— And has she been long a Jilt? has she practiſed the Trade for any Time?
动词 v.
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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.
词源
词源 1
Contraction of jillet (“a giddy girl, a jill-flirt”).
词源 2
Contraction of jillet (“a giddy girl, a jill-flirt”).
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