Jill

Meanings

Proper Noun

• A female given name from Latin.
• 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

• 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').
• A jillstrap: the female counterpart to a jockstrap.

Origin

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