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jill

/d͡ʒɪl/UK/d͡ʒɪl/

jill verb: to masturbate. Also the misspelling of gill.

Verb

jill (third-person singular simple present jills, present participle jilling, simple past and past participle jilled)

  1. (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.1997 June 21, 1st try. Sex with mom's friend (teenM/olderF), in alt.sex.stories, Usenet
    • I jilled while babysitting, having found a cache of skeezy porno mags hidden at the bottom of a big basket of magazines in one family's master bathroom.2002, Hanne Blank, Unruly Appetites: Erotic Stories, page xiv
    Synonyms:
    jill off

Noun (1)

jill (plural jills)

  1. 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.1971 March, Fred Taylor, “How the English hunt rabbits”, in Field & Stream^([84]), volume 75, number 11
    • In 1989 I obtained a hob from Curtis Price from one of my own jills mated to my own hob, for living as I do at the very edge of Britain it is not practicable to breed litters of ferrets to obtain a single replacement. Hence I lend out my best mated jills and receive a single ferret kitten from each...2001, David Brian Plummer, In Pursuit of Coney^([62]), Coch Y Bonddu Books, →ISBN
  2. 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.2000, Gary Abraham, Michael Smith, Kids’ Hockey: The Parents’ Guide, Firefly Books, →ISBN, page 91
    • GOALIE JOCK OR JILL CUP AND STRAP PRICE RANGE: $10.00 - $25.00 This is a specialized piece of equipment with extra padding to protect the groin area.2004, John Shorey, Hockey Made Easy: Canada’s Best Instructional Manual, 6th edition, →ISBN, page 141
    Synonyms:
    jillstrap

Proper noun capitalized: Jill

Jill

  1. 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...1994, Floyd Skloot, Summer Blue, Story Line Press,, →ISBN, page 98
    • First lady Jill Biden on Wednesday spoke candidly about her new life, lamenting the enormous pressure a first lady can face.2021 October 20, Kate Bennett, “Jill Biden speaks candidly about being a first lady: ‘Nothing can prepare you’”, in CNN
    1. (abbreviation, clipping) Clipping of Jillian.
  2. 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.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Noun (2) capitalized: Jill

Jill (plural Jills)

  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.

Also used as

jill is also the misspelling of gill.

jill meaning in Marathi, Bengali, Telugu and Kannada

jill in Marathi

जिल करण्यासाठी

jill in Bengali

জিলের কাছে

jill in Telugu

జిల్

jill in Kannada

ಜಿಲ್ಗೆ, ಜಿಲ್

Examples of jill in a sentence

  • Hence I lend out my best mated jills and receive a single ferret kitten from each litter.2001, David Brian Plummer, In Pursuit of Coney^([62]), Coch Y Bonddu Books, →ISBN:
  • I prefer to use Jills on my ferreting jobs.2006, Steve Caple, Rural Pest Control^([9]), Troubador Publishing Ltd., →ISBN:

Synonyms of jill

Forms of jill

Verb
third-person singular presentjills
present participlejilling
past participlejilled
pastjilled
Noun
pluraljills
pluralJills

Origin of jill

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.

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

Words formed from jill

Phrases with jill

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Words that rhyme with jill

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Questions about jill

What does jill mean?
Jill means to masturbate.
What is jill in Marathi?
Jill in Marathi is जिल करण्यासाठी. See Jill meaning in Marathi.
How do you use jill in a sentence?
Hence I lend out my best mated jills and receive a single ferret kitten from each litter.
What part of speech is jill?
Jill can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce jill?
Jill is pronounced /d͡ʒɪl/ (UK).
What is the past tense of jill?
The past tense of jill is jilled.

Words near jill in the dictionary

  1. jilgie
  2. jilgies
  3. Jili
  4. Jilin
  5. Jilin City
  6. jill
  7. jill of all trades
  8. Jill of all trades and mistress of none
  9. Jill of all trades but mistress of none
  10. Jill of all trades, master of none
  11. Jill of all trades, mistress of none

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jill (page history and authors); Jill (page history and authors); jill (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jill (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jill (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jill (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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