Jill

Significado (inglés)

Name

1. A female given name from Latin.
2. A female given name from Latin.
3. Generic use for any female (as Sheila in Australian English), especially paired (since the 15th c., compare Ienken and Iulyan) with the male Jack.

Noun

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 flirtgigg (used by William Shakespeare for a 'woman of light or loose behavior').
2. A jillstrap: the female counterpart to a jockstrap.

Sinónimos

colleen

damsel

daughter

girl

👧

lassie

maid

maiden

wench

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/d͡ʒɪl/

Etimoloxía (inglés)

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