I'm not actually sure who'd ever want to be a lumberjack. Seems like a lot of hard work to me. And all that sawdust, and splinters in your hands... yich.

I notice the Wikipedia article mentions "lumberjills" too. Similar sort of coinage to the Australian jackaroo being modified to form "jillaroo". It hadn't occurred to me before to apply that modification to the word "lumberjack".

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2026-06-16 Rerun commentary: I suppose jackhammers designed for women would be jillhammers. There are the following female animals: jillrabbits, jilldaws, and the mythical jillalopes. Foods for women: flapjills, and jillfruit. British soldiers marching under the Union Jill to fight jillbooted Nazis. I think with this silly joke I've hit the wordplay jillpot.