单词 | jill-flirt |
释义 | † jill-flirtn. Obsolete. A fickle, flirtatious, or wanton woman or girl. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [noun] > person > female gig?c1225 gigleta1340 halok?1507 fizgiga1529 gilliea1529 flirt1562 peat1566 sluta1592 gillian flirt1593 giggle1611 filly1616 jill-flirt1627 flibbertigibbet1640 flirtigig1683 flip-flap1702 gamine1848 kitten1870 sillypop1894 frippet1908 1627 W. Hawkins Apollo Shroving ii. vi. 35 Goe Gill flurt, goe set vp your Pedlars shop in Venus Court. 1673 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master iii. i. 53 'Tis your dainty Minx, that Jillflirt your Daughter here. 1797 J. Butler Fortune's Foot-ball I. 25 She's none of your foolish, extravagant jillflirts, who would ruin you in paint, patches and lace. 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 193 No brazen-faced gipsey, like Sally Wheeler..or the jill-flirt Phœbe. 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xix. viii. 609 A beautiful gillflirt of the Court, minaudière. 1906 Washington Post 18 Mar. iii. 6/2 She is the coquette or the grande dame, the typical gill-flirt or the toothless ‘Mere Bontemps,’ the soubrette or the tragedienne, according to the spirit of the song. 1919 J. B. Cabell Jurgen (1977) iv. 23 Because a jill-flirt had opened my eyes so that they saw too much, I had lost faith in the importance of my own actions. Derivatives gill-flirting adj. ΚΠ 1696 T. Southerne Oroonoko iv. i The young jil-flirting girls, forsooth, believe no Body must have a husband but themselves. 1732 Footman i. v. 12 I am confoundedly in love; and with a gill-flirting Thing. 1765 Public Advertiser 16 Apr. Every Gill-flirting Hoyden is jeering and fleering at me. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1627 |
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