Jill. See gill.
Jill-flirt. See gill-flirt.
Jilt, subs. (old: now recognised).—Specifically, a woman who
encourages, or solicits, advances to which she designs there shall be
no practical end. But see quots. passim. Hence jilted and jilt, verb.
1648–80. Rochester, Bath Intrigues, in Wks. (1728), 87. Thither two
beldams and a jilting wife came. Id. The cheating jilt ... a
dry-bob whore.
1672. Wycherley, Love in a Wood, i. 2. How has he got his jilt
here?
1681. Blount, Glossographia, s.v. Jilt is a new canting word,
signifying to deceive and defeat one’s expectations, more
especially in the point of amours.
1684. R. Head, Proteus Redivivus, 278. I only aimed at the
lascivious jilt.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Jilt, a tricking whore. Jilted,
abused by such a one; also deceived or defeated in one’s
expectation, especially in Amours.
1691–2. Gentlemen’s Journal, Jan., p. 20. You all know, or have
heard at least, what a jilt this same fortune is. Ibid. Feb., p.
11. The lewd conversation of the town-jilts.
1691–2. T. Brown, in Gentlemen’s Journal, Mar. p. 10. There dwells
not another such jilt in the city.
1696. Congreve, Oroonoko, Epil. She might have learn’d to cuckold,
jilt and sham Had Covent Garden been at Surinam.
1714. Lucas, Gamesters, 214. One, Mary Wadsworth, a jilt of the
town.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1772. G. A. Stevens, Songs Comic and Satyrical, 129. So here’s to
the girl who will give one a share; But as to those jilts who deny,
So cursedly coy though they’ve so much to spare.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Jilt, a tricking woman, who
encourages the addresses of a man whom she means to deceive and
abandon. Jilted, rejected by a woman who has encouraged one’s
advances.
1823. Bee, Dict. of the Turf, s.v. Jilt—a she-deceiver.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. Jilt, a prostitute who hugs and
kisses a countryman while her accomplice robs him.
2. (thieves’).—A crowbar; a jemmy (q.v.). In pl. = housebreaking tools
generally.
Verb. (thieves’). See quot.
1868. Temple Bar, xxiv. 537. Jilting is getting in on the sly or
false pretences at the door, and sneaking what you can find.
Jilter, subs. (thieves’).—Thieves who work as described under Jilt
(verb.).
1863. Cornhill Magazine, vii. 91. Another notable class of
criminals called jilters or Noteblankers: they go in pairs.
Jim-Brown, subs. phr. (rhyming).—Town.
1893. Emerson, Signor Lippo, v. ‘When did you come into ... Jim
Brown?’ ‘Oh, yesterday morning’, says I, tumbling.
Jimcrack. See gimcrack.
Jimbugg, subs. (Australian squatters’).—A sheep; a woolly-bird (q.v.).
1854. Ridley, Phil. Soc. Trans. (1855), p. 73. Jimbugg, a slang
name for sheep.
Jim Crow. See Billy Barlow.
Jimjams, subs. (common).—1. Delirium tremens; the horrors (q.v.). Also,
the jams. For synonyms see Gallon-distemper.
1888. Detroit Free Press, 4 Aug. He was a character noted for going
on frequent benders until he came very near having the jimjams and
then sobering up.
1888. St. Louis Globe Democrat, 16. Febr. He had the jim-jams
yesterday evening.
1888. J. Runciman, The Chequers, 43. Our landlord of the Chequers
was very funny about the jim-jams.
1891. Gentleman’s Mag., Aug., p. 119. I thought as ’ow ’twas only
the jim-jams he’d got; but the doctor ’e says it’s a bad job, an’
’is ribs is broke.
1891. Punch, 4 April. ‘Look, Polly!—shee that creature long and
lean, Crawling towardsh us! Jim-Jamsh are not in it With thish ’ere
Bri’s’h Museum! Wai’ a minute!’