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jiffy

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jif·fy  (jf)
n. pl. jif·fies Informal
A short space of time; a moment. See Synonyms at moment.

[Origin unknown.]

jiffy
Noun
pl jiffies Informal a very short time: won't be a jiffy! [origin unknown]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.jiffyjiffy - a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"
mo, moment, second, minute, bit - an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "in a mo"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit"
Translations
Spanish jiffy [ˈdʒɪfɪ] n (col): in a jiffy → en un santiamén
French jiffy [ˈdʒɪfɪ] n (inf);
in a jiffy → en un clin d'œil

German jiffy [ˈdʒɪfɪ] (inf) n in a jiffy → sofort
Italian jiffy [ˈdʒɪfɪ] n (col): in a jiffy → in un batter d'occhio

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First of all it was up wid the windy in a jiffy, and thin she threw open her two peepers to the itmost, and thin it was a little gould spy-glass that she clapped tight to one o' them and divil may burn me if it didn't spake to me as plain as a peeper cud spake, and says it, through the spy-glass: "Och
Why, sold off in a jiffy, and no character, and I might find myself slaved about under a butcher's boy, or worked to death at some seaside place where no one cared for me, except to find out how fast I could go, or be flogged along in some cart with three or four great men in it going out for a Sunday spree, as I have often seen in the place I lived in before I came here; no," said he, shaking his head, "I hope I shall never come to that.
In a jiffy I had slipped over the side and curled up in the fore-sheets of the nearest boat, and almost at the same moment she shoved off.
 
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