| 单词 | in a jiffy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin a jiffy A very short space of time: only in such phrases as in a jiffy, in a trice. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > moment or instant hand-whileOE prinkOE start-while?c1225 twinkling1303 rese?c1335 prick1340 momenta1382 pointa1382 minutea1393 instant1398 braida1400 siquarea1400 twink14.. whip?c1450 movement1490 punct1513 pissing whilea1556 trice1579 turning of a hand1579 wink1585 twinklec1592 semiquaver1602 punto1616 punctilio of time1620 punctum1620 breathing1625 instance1631 tantillation1651 rapc1700 crack1725 turning of a straw1755 pig's whisper1780 jiffy1785 less than no time1788 jiff1797 blinka1813 gliffy1820 handclap1822 glimpsea1824 eyewink1836 thought1836 eye-blink1838 semibreve1845 pop1847 two shakes of a lamb's taila1855 pig's whistle1859 time point1867 New York minute1870 tick1879 mo?1896 second1897 styme1897 split-second1912 split minute1931 no-time1942 sec.1956 1785 Munchhausen's Trav. (1792) xxiii. 96 In six jiffies I found myself and all my retinue..at the rock of Gibralter. 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) (at cited word) It will be done in a jeffy: it will be done in a short space of time, in an instant. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xiii. 192 We were ordered to South America; and the trade winds took us there in a jiffey. 1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet iii, in New Monthly Mag. Sept. 158 In half a jiffy, or less than that. 1880 C. H. Spurgeon John Ploughman's Pictures 100 They have wonderful plans for doing everything in a jiffy. < as lemmas |
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