Thill vs Shill - What's the difference?
thill | shill |
One of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft.
The thin stratum of underclay which lies under a seam of coal; the bottom of a coal-seam.
*1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Twenty-two’, In Black and White , Folio Society 2005, p. 405:
*:One by one, Janki leading, they crept into the old gallery – a six-foot way with a scant four feet from thill to roof.
A person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial.
* 26 June 2014 , A.A Dowd, AV Club Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler spoof rom-com clichés in They Came Together [http://www.avclub.com/review/paul-rudd-and-amy-poehler-spoof-rom-com-cliches-th-206220]
* 1983 , , Prometheus Rising ,
An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game.
* 1994 , , The Crossing ,
(pejorative) To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly.
* 1996 , , The Demon-Haunted World ,
To put under cover; to sheal.
(UK, obsolete, dialect) To shell.
As nouns the difference between thill and shill
is that thill is one of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft while shill is a person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial.As a verb shill is
(pejorative) to promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly.thill
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Alternative forms
* fill (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)shill
English
(wikipedia shill)Noun
(en noun)- You’ve Got Mail is certainly the basic model for the plot, which finds corporate candy shill Joel (Rudd) and indie-sweetshop owner Molly (Poehler) regaling their dinner companions with the very long, digressive story of how they met and fell in love.
- Witnesses have testified that Jim Jones (like a few other professional faith-healers) used shills part of the time....
- The pitchman swept his cane in a slow acceleration over the heads of the crowd and then suddenly pointed the silver cap toward Billy and the shill .
Verb
(en verb)- Today there are even commercials in which real scientists, some of considerable distinction, shill for corporations. They teach that scientists too will lie for money. As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.