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Sounds like jill, gill · Rhymes with -ɪl

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

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 ab
abbreviation, clipping Clipping of Jillian.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. Our wooing doth not end like an old play; Jack hath not Jill; these ladies' courtesy Might well have made our sport a comedy.

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.

Rhymes with -ɪl

From the female name Jill.

* (to masturbate): By analogy with jack (off). See Jack (“male name”).

* (gill): Paired with jack (from the male name Jack) as terms for alcohol measurements.

* (pelvic protector): By analogy with jock, Jock being a male name.

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.

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.
misspelling Misspelling of gill.gill
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.