OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 523

jiffy

/ˈd͡ʒɪ.fi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
en un pispás • periquete • santiamén • tris
A very short, unspecified length of time.
I’ll be back in a jiffy.
Most of the limbs of the law do every thing in a jiffy; but ask what they mean, and they would be as much puzzled, as if you required of them the explanantion of a common act of pa…
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