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  1. Jill(ProperNoun)

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  2. Jill(ProperNoun)

    Generic use for any female (as Sheila in Australian English), especially paired (since the 15th c., compare Ienken and Iulyan) with the male Jack.

  3. Jill(ProperNoun)

    A young woman; a sweetheart; like the variant spelling Gill it was also associated with various assertive uses of the term flirt, as in flirtgigg (used by William Shakespeare for a 'woman of light or loose behavior').

  4. Jill(ProperNoun)

    A man's right hand; .

  5. Jill(ProperNoun)

    A jillstrap: the female counterpart to a jockstrap.

  6. Origin: By analogy with jack or jackrabbit.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Jill(noun)

    a young woman; a sweetheart. See Gill


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