jilt Definition

jilt
noun

1. old use
A person, originally and especially a woman, who encourages and then rejects a lover.

verb

jilted, jilting
1. To leave and abruptly discard a previously encouraged lover.

Thesaurus: betray, forsake, abandon, brush off (slang), deceive, desert, discard, spurn, throw over; Antonym: cleave to.

Etymology: 17c: contracted from dialect jillet a flirt.