and All the Many-Splendored Things in Between in Teenspeak - Jockspeak - Menglish - Slanglish - Spanglish
Gaylese - Americanese - Britspeak - Ozslang - Funetic
Populo-Vulgar Speech - T-Shirt & Net Shorthand
Pompo-Verbosity & other Figurative Lingos
A girl or woman , especially a sweetheart . Obsolete. Defined by Captain Francis Grose his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811) as: ' The abbreviation of Gillian, figuratively used for a woman . Every jack has his gill; i.e. every jack has his gillian, or female mate .'
