jillsn.
/dʒɪlz/ slang.
Used with a possessive pronoun: my jills = ‘I’, his jills = ‘he’, etc.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > individuality or selfhood > self > one's, etc., self
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1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands ix. 117 ‘They thort his jills had done er get,’ said the packer.
1940 Notes & Queries 15 June 421/1 In the current slang of the Variety profession and other Bohemian circles, ‘jills’, coupled with a possessive pronoun, stands for ‘I’, ‘you’, ‘he’, etc., according to the possessive pronoun prefixed... So ‘my jills’, ‘your jills’, ‘his jills’.
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