Julie vs Jill - What's the difference?
julie | jill |
. Popular in the latter half of the twentieth century.
* 1813 , Tracy , Poems by George Crabbe, Adolphus William Ward,The University Press 1907, page 455:
* 1917 , Cousin Julia , D. Appleton and Company, page 3:
* 2000 Jayne Anne Phillips: Mother Kind : page 156:
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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 a proper noun julie
is popular in the latter half of the twentieth century.As a verb jill is
to masturbate.As a noun jill is
a female ferret or jill can be .julie
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- The first-born Child had every dawning Grace / And promis'd Beauty in her form and face. / "We'll call her Julie' if you please, my dear," / The Mother cry'd, "I doat on ' Julie Vere." / "What! no Remembrance of her Aunt! for Shame! / You doat indeed! be Barbara her name!"
- "I loathe the name of Julia. Julie , in the French way, is quite pretty, but Julia! - "
- "Call her Cousin Julie then; I've no doubt she'll prefer it. She's nothing if not progressive, I believe."
- They were called Jim & Julie , professionally. It seemed such a waste to deal in fantasy, in illusion and pretend, and not christen one's endeavor more suggestively. Kate wondered if their real names were Letitia and Sylvester, or Cleopatra and Mandrake; perhaps they'd gone undercover with white-bread names in quest of posh children's parties and Yankee suitability.
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.