Jill
A female given name from Latin.
Clipping of Jillian.
Generic use for any female (as Sheila in Australian English), especially paired (since the 15th c, compare Ienken and Iulyan) with the male Jack.
Jill (plural Jills)
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').
A jillstrap: the female counterpart to a jockstrap.
jill (third-person singular simple present jills, present participle jilling, simple past and past participle jilled)
(uncommon, coarse, slang, of a female) To masturbate.
• See also masturbate
jill (plural jills)
A female ferret.
Coordinate term: hob (sex)
jill (plural jills)
Misspelling of gill.
Source: Wiktionary
Jill, n. Etym: [See Gill sweetheart.]
Definition: A young woman; a sweetheart. See Gill. Beau. & Fl.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 June 2025
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
