jilling

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A form of jill — A young woman; a sweetheart; like the variant spelling Gill it was also associated with various assertive uses of the term flirt, as in flurt-gills (used by William Shakespeare for a 'woman of light or loose behavior').

Scrabble 15

Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of jill
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Chicago

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