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Jill

name
/d͡ʒɪl/

Etymology

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.

Definitions

  1. A female given name from Latin.

    • First lady Jill Biden on Wednesday spoke candidly about her new life, lamenting the enormous pressure a first lady can face.

  2. A generic use for any female (as Sheila in Australian English), especially paired (since…

    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.

  3. A young woman

    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').

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A jillstrap

      A jillstrap: the female counterpart to a jockstrap.

    2. To masturbate.

      • 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.

    3. A female ferret.

    4. Misspelling of gill.

    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.
      • GOALIE JOCK OR JILL CUP AND STRAP PRICE RANGE: $10.00 - $25.00 This is a specialized piece of equipment with extra padding to protect the groin area.

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Derived

jillstrap

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA