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Jill
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- 1 A female given name from Latin.
""Just Jill, I'm afraid." "Would you prefer if it was Gillian?" "Oh, I think so. Gillian sounds so much fancier." "Fancy?" Terrence said. He smiled at her. "Or perhaps it sounds flashy?" "Royal," Richard said. "Flowery," Terrence added. "You could say Gillian was more flowery. That would fit. What about you, Corrie, what does it sound like to you?" "Rich," Corrie glanced at Jill. "Gillian sounds richer than Jill.""
- 2 A female given name from Latin.; Clipping of Jillian. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
- 3 A generic use for any female (as Sheila in Australian English), especially paired (since the 15th c., compare Ienken and Iulyan) with the male Jack.
"Our wooing doth not end like an old play; Jack hath not Jill; these ladies' courtesy Might well have made our sport a comedy."
- 1 A young woman; a sweetheart; like the variant spelling Gill it was also associated with various assertive uses of the term flirt, as in flurt-gills (used by William Shakespeare for a 'woman of light or loose behavior').
- 2 A female ferret.
"Below ground, in the maze of tunnels excavated by the rabbits over many, many years, five of our jill, or bitch, ferrets were running loose[...]. A white jill popped out of the hole nearest men slithered through the net mesh and disappeared down an adjacent entrance."
- 3 A jillstrap: the female counterpart to a jockstrap.
- 4 Misspelling of gill. alt-of, misspelling
- 5 A pelvic protector, a woman’s equivalent of a man’s jock.
"These complicated pieces of padding usually one-piece these days) should cover the entire chest and belly (down to the top of the jock or jill), the upper back, the collarbone, the upper arms and part of the forearms."
- 1 To masturbate. slang, uncommon, vulgar
"Sue was fingering herself in my bed. IN MY BED. I couldn't believe it. I tried to pretend that I was still asleep but she caught me peeking as she was jilling herself."
Etymology
A variant of Gill, diminutive of Gillian, a medieval form of Juliana, ultimately from Latin.
A variant of Gill, diminutive of Gillian, a medieval form of Juliana, ultimately from Latin.
From the female name Jill. * (to masturbate): By analogy with jack (off). See Jack (“male name”). * (gill): Paired with jack (from the male name Jack) as terms for alcohol measurements. * (pelvic protector): By analogy with jock, Jock being a male name.
From the female name Jill. * (to masturbate): By analogy with jack (off). See Jack (“male name”). * (gill): Paired with jack (from the male name Jack) as terms for alcohol measurements. * (pelvic protector): By analogy with jock, Jock being a male name.
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