Jills vs Kills - What's the difference?
jills | kills |
(jill)
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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 verbs the difference between jills and kills
is that jills is third-person singular of jill while kills is third-person singular of kill.As a noun kills is
plural of lang=en.jills
English
Verb
(head)Jill
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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.
