Word Meanings - GILL-FLIRT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A thoughtless, giddy girl; a flirt-gill. Sir W. Scott.

Related words: (words related to GILL-FLIRT)

• GIDDY
  silly, AS. gidig, of unknown origin, cf. Norw. gidda to shake, 1. Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded;
• FLIRT
  1. To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief. 2. To toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan. 3. To jeer at; to treat
• THOUGHTLESS
  1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
• GIDDY-HEAD
  A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment. Burton.
• GIDDY-HEADED
  Thoughtless; unsteady.
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• GIDDY-PACED
  Moving irregularly; flighty; fickle. Shak.
• FLIRTIGIG
  A wanton, pert girl.
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• FLIRT-GILL
  A woman of light behavior; a gill-flirt. Shak. You heard him take me up like a flirt-gill. Beau. & Fl.
• FLIRTATION
  1. Playing at courtship; coquerty. The flirtations and jealousies of our ball rooms. Macaulay.
• SCOTTISH TERRIER
  See TERRIER
• FLIRTINGLY
  In a flirting manner.
• SCOTTERING
  The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
• SCOTTICISM
  An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.
• MASCOT; MASCOTTE
  A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.
• GILL-FLIRT
  A thoughtless, giddy girl; a flirt-gill. Sir W. Scott.
• JILL-FLIRT
  A light, giddy, or wanton girl or woman. See Gill-flirt.