Bill

bill bíll English Etymology Hypocorism of en William. It is unclear how the initial W became a B; this could have been part of the medieval trend of swapping letters, similar to en Dick for en Rick. Pronunciation en /bɪl/ [bɪɫ], bîl en en-us-bill.ogg US en ɪl 1 Proper noun s en male William. en 1974 w:John le Carré Tinker. Tailor, Soldier, Spy 7 Simon&Schuster 2002 0743457900 "My other name's Bill," he said. "I was christened Bill but Mr Thursgood calls me William." / "Bill, eh. The unpaid Bill. Anyone ever call you that?" / "No, sir." / "Good name, anyway." / "Yes, sir." / "Known a lot of Bills. They've all been good 'uns." en 1998 w:Nick Hornby About A Boy 208 Victor Gollancz 1998 0575061596 One of his neighbours opposite, a nice old guy with a stoop and a horrible little Yorkshire terrier, called him Bill - always had done and presumably always would, right up till the day he died. It actually irritated Will, who was not, he felt, by any stretch of the imagination, a Bill. Bill wouldn't smoke spliffs and listen to Nirvana. So why had he allowed this misapprehension to continue? Why hadn't he just said, four years ago, "Actually my name is Will"? en Stephen Collinson Trump’s personal attacks aren’t just who he is. They’re his strategy w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/26/politics/trump-personal-attacks-policy-harris-analysis 2024-08-26 Her tone shift involved former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton lampooning their fellow ex-president as a figure of ridicule. Then Harris closed the trap with a line in her convention speech: “Trump is an unserious man. But the consequences … of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious.” https://web.archive.org/web/20240910150858/https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/26/politics/trump-personal-attacks-policy-harris-analysis/ 10 September 2024 en rare en male Bilal. en Kyle Cheney; Josh Gerstein Judge rules LA’s top federal prosecutor was illegally appointed w:POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/28/judge-los-angeles-top-federal-prosecutor-illegally-appointed-00626804 2025-10-28 Bill Essayli, Trump’s pick in April to temporarily lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, should have departed the post by July 31 under a 120-day limit imposed by federal law, U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright concluded. https://web.archive.org/web/20260111085934/https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/28/judge-los-angeles-top-federal-prosecutor-illegally-appointed-00626804 11 January 2026 en. en British slang A nickname for the British constabulary. Often called "The Bill" or "Old Bill" Derived terms en Bill Wigglestick Bill Williams River Billary Billiam Billie Billster Billy Related terms en Will Translations male given name Arabic: ar بِيل m, ar بِيل m bil Armenian: hy Բիլ Bulgarian: bg Бил m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 比爾 Bǐ'ěr Dutch: nl Bill m Faroese: fo Bill m Georgian: ka ბილ Greek: el Μπιλ m Hindi: hi बिल Hungarian: hu Vili Japanese: ja ビル Biru Korean: ko ^빌 Māori: mi Piri Persian: fa بیل bil Polish: pl Bill m Portuguese: pt Bill m Russian: ru Билл m Spanish: es Guille Ukrainian: uk Білл m References Peter Burke (1997). Varieties of Cultural History. Cornell University Press. p. 51. Israel, David (2015): The Origins of Nicknames Further reading Bill (given name) Bill (surname) en calculator words Azerbaijani Proper noun az en male given name Bill Portuguese Proper noun m pt male Bill English Swedish Etymology From sv en Bill. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1895. Proper noun c sv male sv 1994 w:Maria Gripe Egna världar 9163830302 272 —Vem är Bill, mamma?Jag väntade mig inget svar, men mamma skrattade:—Vet du inte det? Jo, det kommer från farmor. När pappa var liten brukade hon på skoj kalla honom för Bill...Lille Bill...Vilde Bill...Det tog han efter sen och kallade sig ofta Bill. Fast för min del sa jag alltid Birger.