Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
gill-flirt .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A light, giddy, or wanton girl or woman. See
gill-flirt .
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Examples
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It is the memory of your beauty, as I then saw it mirrored in the face of a jill-flirt, which has enfeebled me for such honest love as other men give women: and I envy these other men.
Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918
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It is the memory of your beauty, as I then saw it mirrored in the face of a jill-flirt, which has enfeebled me for such honest love as other men give women; and I envy these other men.
Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918
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And I could not believe as my fellows believed, nor could I love them, nor could I detect anything in aught they said or did save their exceeding folly: for I had lost their cordial common faith in the importance of what use they made of half-hours and months and years; and 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, too.
Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918
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“Why, no,” said Master George; “she is a dutiful girl to her god-father, though I sometimes call her a jill-flirt. —
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"Ah, but this boy had lost his fellows 'cordial common faith in the importance of what use they made of half-hours and months and years; and because a jill-flirt had opened his eyes so that they saw too much, he had lost faith in the importance of his own actions, too.
Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918
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"Why, no," said Master George; "she is a dutiful girl to her god - father, though I sometimes call her a jill-flirt.
The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801
qms commented on the word jill-flirt
Beg pardon if I dish some dirt:
They never were angels, for cert.
The Jack and the Jill
Who went up that hill
Were jackanapes and a jill-flirt.
August 28, 2016