† 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
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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.
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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).
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