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gillian

nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈd͡ʒɪ.li.ən//

A girl, especially a wanton.

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteA girl, especially a wanton.

    Do you snarl, you black Gill?

  2. 2

    obsoleteA prostitute.

Etymology

From the female name.

Forms

plural
gillians
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).