Sc. [dim. of the female name Jill or GILL (sb.4): see also GILLOT, JELOT.] A giddy or flighty young woman; a jilt; sometimes, a familiar or contemptuous term for a girl or young woman, a wench.
1755. Johnson, s.v. Jilt, Perhaps from … gillet, or gillot, the diminutive of gill, the ludicrous name for a woman. ’Tis also called jillet in Scotland.
1786. Burns, On a Scotch Bard gone to W. Indies, vi. A jillet brak his heart at last, Ill may she be!
1808–25. Jamieson, Jillet, a giddy young woman, implying the idea of levity.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, xxxi. Hark you, were it not well to receive that coy jillet with something of a mumming?
