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  • noun soccer someone connected with Gillingham Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
  • proper noun A surname.
  • proper noun A male given name, in modern use often transferred back from the surname.
  • proper noun rare A spelling variant of female given name Jill.

Etymologies

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From Gillingham.

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From a Middle English diminutive form of Julian, Giles, and William. Also a Northern English topographic surname from Middle English gill ("ravine").

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