Jill

Meanings

1. A female given name from Latin.
2. Clipping of Jillian.
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.

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.

1. To masturbate.

1. A female ferret.
2. Misspelling of gill.
3. A pelvic protector, a woman’s equivalent of a man’s jock.

Etymology

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