/ · 1894 Brewer’s · G · Gill (g soft) or Jill
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A generic name for a lass, a sweetheart. (A contraction of Gillian = Juliana, Julia.)
“Jack and Jill went up the hill … .
Nursery Rhymes.
“Every Jack has got his Jill (i.e. Ilka laddie has his lassie).”—Burns.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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