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[ jif-ee ] / ˈdʒɪf i / SEE SYNONYMS FOR jiffy ON THESAURUS.COM
noun, plural jif·fies.Informal.a very short time; moment: to get dressed in a jiffy. Origin of jiffyFirst recorded in 1770–80; origin uncertain SYNONYMS FOR jiffyinstant, flash, second, trice. SEE SYNONYMS FOR jiffy ON THESAURUS.COM Words nearby jiffyjicama, Jicarilla, JICTAR, Jidda, Jiddah, jiffy, Jiffy bag, jig, jigaboo, Jigawa, jig back Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for jiffyThe GFY (pronounced “jiffy”) is essentially a more technologically advanced version of the ubiquitous GIF. Are GFYs Bad For Your Sex Life?|Lizzie Crocker|March 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST You can be the leader of a Salvadoran death squad, and then manage a Jiffy Lube in North Miami. Sunshine: Florida’s Fraught Relationship With the Truth|Jim DeFede|March 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST To this day, I pick up a box of Jiffy cornbread mix when shopping. Ricotta Cheese Recipe: How to Make Your Own|Petrit Husenaj|March 15, 2011|DAILY BEAST Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson says the Jiffy Lube logo makes more fiscal sense. How to Make a $50 Bill Worth Millions|Barry Levinson|March 30, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The other, about Sting performing at Jiffy Lube Live, a concert venue in Bristow, Virginia. How to Make a $50 Bill Worth Millions|Barry Levinson|March 30, 2010|DAILY BEAST But Holden tumbled and several Princeton men were on him in a jiffy. Football Days|William H. Edwards Get upon the deck, and I'll swaller this iron if you aren't able to dance a breakdown in a jiffy! The Wreck of the Grosvenor, Volume 1 of 3|William Clark Russell "That I will," said Tommy, and in a jiffy he had gnawed them free. Kernel Cob And Little Miss Sweetclover|George Mitchel I can't take it with me, for it would be a bother, an' if it tried to spout po'try I'd be discovered in a jiffy. This you see generates a terrific heat, and in a jiffy the soup is made piping hot. Phil Bradley's Snow-shoe Trail|Silas K. Boone
British Dictionary definitions for jiffy
noun plural jiffies or jiffsinformal a very short timewait a jiffy Word Origin for jiffyC18: of unknown origin Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with jiffyThe American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to jiffybreath, crack, flash, moment, twinkling, second, shake, minute, trice, split second, jiff |