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jill-of-all-trades

jill-of-all-trades is the alternative form of jill of all trades.

Meaning of jill of all trades

Noun

jill of all trades (plural jills of all trades)

  1. (idiomatic) A woman competent in many endeavors rather than only one.
    • Sitting in a dive in Central Square, the one where she works as a dishwasher, barmaid, jill of all trades (illegal, no papers, below-the-minimum cash payments, afternoon and early evening shifts), she stared into a mug of beer and told herself: There comes a point.1988, Janette Turner Hospital, Charades, University of Queensland Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 268

Noun capitalized: Jill-of-all-trades

Jill-of-all-trades (plural Jills-of-all-trades)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of jill of all trades.
    • She was the head nurse and Jill-of-all-trades at the Sunshine Gap clinic.1999, Myrna Temte, Wrangler, Silhouette Books, →ISBN
    • However, I have no pretensions to being either an expert cameraperson or editor: a bit of a Jill-of-all-trades, you might say.2011, Jenny Devitt, in Wildlife Film-making: Looking to the Future (ed. Piers Warren), Wildeye (2011), page 83

Forms of jill-of-all-trades

pluraljills-of-all-trades
pluralJills-of-all-trades

Phrases with jill-of-all-trades

Questions about jill-of-all-trades

What is jill-of-all-trades the alternative form of?
Jill-of-all-trades is the alternative form of jill of all trades.
What part of speech is jill-of-all-trades?
Jill-of-all-trades is a noun.
What is the plural of jill-of-all-trades?
The plural of jill-of-all-trades is jills-of-all-trades.

Words near jill-of-all-trades in the dictionary

  1. jill off
  2. jill-hooter
  3. jill-hooters
  4. jill-mill
  5. jill-mills
  6. jill-of-all-trades
  7. Jill-of-all-trades and mistress of none
  8. jillaroo
  9. jillarooing
  10. jillaroos
  11. jilled

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