jill
/d͡ʒɪl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.81 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A female given name from Latin.
name
A female given name from Latin.
name
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.
noun
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').
noun
A jillstrap: the female counterpart to a jockstrap.
noun
Misspelling of gill.
Example Sentences
- ""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.""
- "First lady Jill Biden on Wednesday spoke candidly about her new life, lamenting the enormous pressure a first lady can face."
- "Our wooing doth not end like an old play; Jack hath not Jill; these ladies' courtesy Might well have made our sport a comedy."
- "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."
- "I jilled while babysitting, having found a cache of skeezy porno mags hidden at the bottom of a big basket of magazines in one family's master bathroom."
- "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."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /d͡ʒɪl/
- British English: /d͡ʒɪl/