jill

name

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."”

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

2. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)A female given name from Latin.
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.”

noun

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 jillstrap: the female counterpart to a jockstrap.
3. 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.”

   “In 1989 I obtained a hob from Curtis Price from one of my own jills mated to my own hob, for living as I do at the very edge of Britain it is not practicable to breed litters of ferrets to obtain a single replacement. Hence I lend out my best mated jills and receive a single ferret kitten from each litter.”

   “I prefer to use Jills on my ferreting jobs. All are fitted with transmitter collars, and I would never work a ferret without one. That said, I always make sure I have a large Hob ferret with me because sometimes he will shift stubborn rabbits where the Jills have failed.”

4. (alt-of, misspelling)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.”

   “There’s nothing easy about being a hockey mom (or being related to me, for that matter).[…]But also know this: along this journey, you’ll learn so many valuable life – and parenting – lessons.[…]You’ll never have to be reminded again about taking the cup out of the jock or Jill before laundering it,[…].”

   “Jock or Jill? More girls are playing hockey now than ever before. Sadly, big business hasn’t kept up. Some companies are just beginning to make hockey pants, pelvic protectors, and skates for girls.”

verb

1. (slang, uncommon, vulgar)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.”