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A female given name from Latin. · Clipping of Jillian. · 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.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA 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.
A variant of Gill, diminutive of Gillian, a medieval form of Juliana, ultimately from Latin.
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