Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a prostitute, esp. one who tricks her client.

1620		Dekker Dekker his Dreame 30: Base Heapes tumbled together, who all yell’d / Like bandogs tyed in kennels: [...] Iylts, Prinadoes, Bawdes, Pimpes, Panders.
1672		Wycherley Love in a Wood I i: How has he got this Jilt here?
1673		‘Letter from a Missionary Bawd’ in Carpenter Verse in English from Tudor & Stuart Eng. (2003) 424: The Mercenary Jilt has twice been sold.
1677		Behn Rover IV ii: There was a Country-man of ours robb’d of a Row of Teeth whilst he was sleeping, which the Jilt made him buy again when he wak’d.
1679		Rochester Letter from Artemiza to Chloe in Works (1999) 66: And if Wee hide Our frailtyes from their sights, Call us deceitful Gilts and Hypocrites.
1685		J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice II i: Eve, the mother of all jilts.
1694		J. Crowne Married Beau Epilogue: I’m not the Woman, which you take me for. But when the little shining round-fac’d Rogues, Call’d Guineys, peep — Ah! how a Jilt Collogues.
1701		N. Ward ‘A Walk to Islington’ Writings (1704) 64: Bawds with their Jilts, and good Wives with their Daughters.
1710		J. Dunton ‘The He-Strumpets’ Athenianism – Project IV 94: Ye Jilts! ’tis prov’d, and must be said, Your Tails are grown to lewd and bad, That now Mens Tails have all the Trade.
1714		T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 232: One, Mary Wadsworth, a jilt of the town.
1723		C. Walker Authentick Memoirs of Sally Salisbury 119: The Melody of that chinking Sound attracts the Eyes of the Fair Jilt.
1730		J. Miller Humours of Oxford I i: A Jilt does her Cully while she is picking his Pockets.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: jilt a tricking Woman.
1750		‘Doctor A--- Advice to his Patients’ Button Hole Garland 4: Of Love, and every sad Effect, / Which wanton Jilts and Fools neglect, / My Muse intends to sing.
1766		Midnight Spy (c.1929) 64: Her name is Jenny Decoy, she is as arrant a jilt as any in town, and [...] draws into her trammels, numbers of heated youths, and amorous dotards.
1772		G. Stevens ‘Bartleme Fair’ Songs Comic and Satyrical 70: Bawds, baileys, jilts, jockies, thieves, tumblers, and taylors.
1785		L. Macnally Fashionable Levities I i: She’s a jilt, Colonel. — I hate a jilt.
1792		C. Dibdin ‘Bacchus’s Feast’ Buck’s Delight 39: Then reeling away they all rambled in quest / Of drunkards and jilts of the town.
1801		M. Edgeworth Belinda (1994) 106: Think of that jilt’s tricking this poor fellow out of his aloe.
1808		G. Andrewes Stranger’s Guide or Frauds of London 15: Jilts are ladies of easy virtue [...] they have more art than the street-walker, and more cant and cunning.
1830		Owl (NY) 25 Sept. n.p.: ‘I would rather be dead’ / Than tied to a fiery young jilt.
1836		‘A New Version Of Regent Street’ Cockchafer 14: What I have heard I’ll tell to you [...] It was told me by a jilt.
1850		E.V. Kenealy Goethe: a New Pantomime in Poetical Works 2 (1878) 334: Jilt, Coquette, Shrew, Vixen, Hussy, / Slattern, Fish-fag, Trollop, Drab.
1858		‘A. Pendragon’ Queen of the South 115: I love that lad somehow. And yet his mother was a cold jilt.
1877		Five Years’ Penal Servitude 258: He always anathematised her ladyship as a jilt, if not something worse.