Jill

/d͡ʒɪl/

Jill

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American (Lessac) (medium)

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Definition

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').

Etymology

A variant of Gill, diminutive of Gillian, a medieval form of Juliana, ultimately from Latin.