Jill

Pronunciation

• GenAm IPA: /dʒɪl/
• Rhymes: -ɪl

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

Full definition of jill

Verb

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

• 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.

Synonyms

Derived terms

• jill off synonymous, more common

From the female name Jill.

Noun

1. A female ferret.
• March 1971, Fred Taylor, "How the English hunt rabbits", Field & Stream, vol. 75, no. 11, p. 84: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 me, slithered through the net mesh and disappeared down an adjacent entrance.
• 2001, David Brian Plummer, In Pursuit of Coney, Coch Y Bonddu Books, ISBN 0953364887, p. 62: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 0955389607, p. 9: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 terms

• hob (male ferret)