jill

English

Etymology

From the female name Jill.

• (to masturbate): By analogy with jack (off). See Jack (“male name”).
• (gill): Paired with jack (from the male name Jack) as terms for alcohol measurements.
• (pelvic protector): By analogy with jock, Jock being a male name.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪl/
• Rhymes: -ɪl

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Verb

jill (third-person singular simple present jills, present participle jilling, simple past and past participle jilled)

1. (uncommon, vulgar, slang, of a female) To masturbate.
   • 1997 June 21, 1st try. Sex with mom's friend (teenM/olderF), in alt.sex.stories, Usenet:

     Sue was fingering herself in my bed. IN MY BED. I couldn't believe it. I tried to pretend that I was still asleep but she caught me peeking as she was jilling herself.

   • 2002, Hanne Blank, Unruly Appetites: Erotic Stories, page xiv:

     I jilled while babysitting, having found a cache of skeezy porno mags hidden at the bottom of a big basket of magazines in one family's master bathroom.

Synonyms

• jill off (more common); see also Thesaurus:masturbate

Noun

jill (plural jills)

1. A female ferret.

   Coordinate term: (sex) hob

   • 1971 March, Fred Taylor, “How the English hunt rabbits”, in Field & Stream‎, volume 75, number 11:

     Below ground, in the maze of tunnels excavated by the rabbits over many, many years, five of our jill, or bitch, ferrets were running loose[...]. A white jill popped out of the hole nearest men slithered through the net mesh and disappeared down an adjacent entrance.

   • 2001, David Brian Plummer, In Pursuit of Coney‎, Coch Y Bonddu Books, →ISBN:

     In 1989 I obtained a hob from Curtis Price from one of my own jills mated to my own hob, for living as I do at the very edge of Britain it is not practicable to breed litters of ferrets to obtain a single replacement. Hence I lend out my best mated jills and receive a single ferret kitten from each litter.

   • 2006, Steve Caple, Rural Pest Control‎, Troubador Publishing Ltd., →ISBN:

     I prefer to use Jills on my ferreting jobs. All are fitted with transmitter collars, and I would never work a ferret without one. That said, I always make sure I have a large Hob ferret with me because sometimes he will shift stubborn rabbits where the Jills have failed.

2. Misspelling of gill.
3. A pelvic protector, a woman’s equivalent of a man’s jock.
   • 2000, Gary Abraham, Michael Smith, Kids’ Hockey: The Parents’ Guide, Firefly Books, →ISBN, page 91:

     These complicated pieces of padding usually one-piece these days) should cover the entire chest and belly (down to the top of the jock or jill), the upper back, the collarbone, the upper arms and part of the forearms.

   • 2004, John Shorey, Hockey Made Easy: Canada’s Best Instructional Manual, 6th edition, →ISBN, page 141:

     GOALIE JOCK OR JILL CUP AND STRAP PRICE RANGE: $10.00 - $25.00 This is a specialized piece of equipment with extra padding to protect the groin area.

   • 2015, Astra Groskaufmanis, “Prologue”, in Offside by a Mile: Confessions of a Hockey Mom, FriesenPress, →ISBN:

     There’s nothing easy about being a hockey mom (or being related to me, for that matter). […] But also know this: along this journey, you’ll learn so many valuable life – and parenting – lessons. […] You’ll never have to be reminded again about taking the cup out of the jock or Jill before laundering it, […].

   • 2015, Sue Irwin, “A Dangerous Game”, in Safety Stars: Players who fought to make the hard-hitting game of professional hockey safer, Toronto, Ont.: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., →ISBN, page 14:

     Jock or Jill? More girls are playing hockey now than ever before. Sadly, big business hasn’t kept up. Some companies are just beginning to make hockey pants, pelvic protectors, and skates for girls.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:jill.

Synonyms

• (pelvic protector): jillstrap

Derived terms