Adam vs Jill - What's the difference?
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(Abrahamic religions) The first man and the progenitor of the human race.
* 1611 — 3:20
* 1667 — , Book VII
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* 1859 — , ch 1
* 1904 —
* 1933 — , Over the Garden Wall , Faber and Faber 1933, page 90 ("Boys' Names")
(figuratively) Original sin or human frailty.
(with'' second ''or last) Jesus Christ, whose sacrifice, in Christian theology, makes possible the forgiveness of Adam's original sin.
* 1611 — 15:45
* 1739 —
Designating a neoclassical style of furniture and architecture in the style of Robert and James Adam.
* 1936 , (HP Lovecraft), ‘The Haunter of the Dark’:
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* 1994 , Floyd Skloot, Summer Blue , Story Line Press, ISBN 0934257086, page 98:
Generic use for any female (as Sheila in Australian English), especially paired (since the 15th c., compare Ienken and Iulyan) with the male Jack.
* 1590 , , Act V, Scene II:
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.
As proper nouns the difference between adam and jill
is that adam is the first man and the progenitor of the human race while Jill is {{given name|female|from=Latin}}.As a verb jill is
to masturbate.As a noun jill is
a female ferret.adam
English
(wikipedia Adam)Proper noun
(s)- And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
- Say Goddess, what ensu’d when Raphael, / The affable Arch-Angel, had forewarn'd / Adam by dire example to beware / Apostasie,
- Adam Bede was a Saxon, and justified his name; but the jet-black hair, made the more noticeable by its contrast with the light paper cap, and the keen glance of the dark eyes that shone from under strongly marked, prominent and mobile eyebrows, indicated a mixture of Celtic blood.
- Since then I have deciphered some more of Adam’s hieroglyphics, and think he has now become sufficiently important as a public character to justify this publication.
- What splendid names for boys there are! / There's Carol like a rolling car, / And Martin like a flying bird, / And Adam like the Lord's First Word,
- And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
- Second Adam from above,
Reinstate us in thy love.
- Inside were six-panelled doors, wide floor-boards, a curving colonial staircase, white Adam -period mantels, and a rear set of rooms three steps below the general level.
Derived terms
* Adam and Eve * Adamesque * Adamhood * Adamic, Adamical * Adamite * Adamitism * Adam's ale * * Adam's apple * Adam's flannel * Adam's morsel * Adam's needle * * Adam's wine * apple of Adam * (diminutive) * as old as Adam, old as Adam * co-Adamite * not know someone from Adam * Old Adam * pre-Adamite * since Adam was a boySee also
* Eve * * * Edom ----jill
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "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 about you, Corrie, what does it sound like to you?" "Rich," Corrie glanced at '''Jill'''. "Gillian sounds richer than ' Jill ."
- Our wooing doth not end like an old play;
- Jack hath not Jill ; these ladies' courtesy
- Might well have made our sport a comedy.