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gell

gell is the pronunciation spelling of girl.

gell is the alternative form of gill.

Meaning of girl

Noun

girl (countable and uncountable, plural girls)

  1. A female child.
    • I saw a little girl feeding, brushing, and talking to a heifer.
  2. (offensive, sometimes, see usage note) A woman, especially a young and often attractive woman.
    • He has a crush on a girl at work. We were kidding with him yesterday about his work crush.
  3. (colloquial) A term of address to a female (see usage notes)
    • Hey, girl, I haven't seen you since last week! Where you been?
    Synonyms:
    girlie, lass, lassie
  4. (colloquial) One's girlfriend.
    • He lucked out with that girl of his. Smart, sweet, sassy, and pretty too.
  5. (colloquial) One's daughter.
    • Your girl turned up on our doorstep. She was crying about the argument on the playground. We let her vent.
  6. (especially) A female friend.

See all 17 meanings of girl

Meaning of gill

Noun

gill (plural gills)

  1. A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
    • Fishes […] perform their respiration under water by the gills.1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC
  2. A gill slit or gill cover.
    • Gill nets are designed to catch a fish by the gills.
  3. One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs.
    Synonyms:
    lamella
  4. (animal anatomy) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
  5. (figuratively) The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle.
    • dropsy fills you to the gills1728, Jonathan Swift, Ballad on Ballyspellin
  6. One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.

See all 34 meanings of gill

Proper noun capitalized: Gell

Gell

  1. A surname.

Forms of gell

pluralgells

Words formed from gell

Questions about gell

What does gell mean?
Gell means a surname.
What is gell the pronunciation spelling of?
Gell is the pronunciation spelling of girl.
What part of speech is gell?
Gell is a proper noun.

Words near gell in the dictionary

  1. geliophobia
  2. gelisol
  3. gelisols
  4. gelistagnic
  5. gelivable
  6. gell
  7. Gell-Mann Amnesia
  8. Gell-Mann Amnesia effect
  9. Gell-Mann Amnesia effects
  10. gellable
  11. gellan

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