different between james vs jill

Old French

Adverb

james

1. manuscript form of jamés

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

By analogy with jack (off). See Jack (“male name”) and Jill (“female name”).

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, p. 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.

Quotations

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

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:masturbate

Derived terms

• jill off (synonymous, more common)

Etymology 2

From the female name Jill.

Noun

jill (plural jills)

1. A female ferret.

   • 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.

   • 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.

   • 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.

   Coordinate term: (sex) hob

Etymology 3

From the female name Jill; paired with jack (from the male name Jack) as terms for alcohol measurements.

Noun

jill (plural jills)

1. Misspelling of gill.