jill

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/d͡ʒɪl/

noun 5name 3verb 1

Collocations

ADJ.

afraid, engaged, good, great, loose, new, smart, white

Jill was engaged to be married next summer.

VERB + JILL

accusing, dress, grounds, heard, made, makes

She heard Jill laughing loudly from the other side of the classroom.

JILL + NOUN

alice, biden, courtesy, ferrets, i'm, john, jungle, ladies'

Jill and John decided to adopt two ferrets from the animal shelter last spring.

PREP.

on, out

She decided to jill out the application form before the deadline passed.

ADV.

only

Jill only wanted to spend a quiet evening at home reading her favorite book.

Definitions

name

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."

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

A female given name from Latin.

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.

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').

A jillstrap: the female counterpart to a jockstrap.

verb

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.

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Idioms & Phrases

every Jack has his Jill

Everybody will eventually find a romantic partner.

jill of all trades

A woman competent in many endeavors rather than only one.

Sitting in a dive in Central Square, the one where she works as a dishwasher, barmaid, jill of all trades (illegal, no papers, below-the-minimum cash payments, afternoon and early

every woman Jill

All the female members of a group with no exceptions.

"It's got to happen to us all Every man Jack and every woman Jill of us go the same way."

Example Bank

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

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Our wooing doth not end like an old play; Jack hath not Jill; these ladies' courtesy Might well have made our sport a comedy.

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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.

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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.

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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 slithe

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, jill is marked as slang, vulgar. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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