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"text": "\"Who says I filched a vipe?\" demanded the indignant thief. \"Say it agin', and I'll wisit your wittualling hoffice§ [footnote: § The Mouth.] in two jiffies, my queer von! I'se as 'onest a k'racter as hany, and doesn't know vot conweyancing‖ [footnote: ‖ Picking pockets, stealing.] is: d' ye 'ear that?\"",
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"ref": "1842 December, “the Editor” [Thomas Hood], “More News from China”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume LXVI, number CCLXIV (Third Part), London: Henry Colburn, Great Marlborough St., →OCLC, page 427",
"text": "Of course it's kill or be killed, so at it you go, like Carter and his wild beasts, only in right down earnest, two or three more Tigers joining in, clash slash, and the sparks flying as thick as in a smith's forge, or at a Terrific Combat at the Surrey or the Wells. Such a shindy is too hot to last, and, accordingly, if you're alive at the end of two jiffies, the chance is that you find yourself making quite a melodramatic Tableau—namely, your bloody sword in one hand, a Chinese pigtail in the other, and four or five weltering Tartars lying round your feet!",
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"ref": "1864, Ulric De Lazie [pseudonym?; copyright entered by Edmund D. Griffin], Dreams within Dreams; a Plagiarism of the Seventeenth Century; Being, Like Most Visions of the Night, a Medley of Old Things and New, New York, N.Y.: P. O'Shea, 104 Bleecker Street, →OCLC, page 233",
"text": "Here Godfroy nodded pleasantly to Claude, who bowed, and was off— / —In a jiffy* to his men, who greeted him with loud hurrahs. In another jiffy, he was on a barrel, making them an oration. In another jiffy, he had hold of a horse, somehow—for the man had contrived already to make himself so popular in Viot, that he could have anything he liked for the asking. [Footnote: * Jiffy.—Let not the reader scorn the word; it is in Webster. \"Jiffy, a moment.\"—Webster.]",
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"etymology_text": "Origin unknown; said to have been thieves’ cant for “lightning”. Also formerly written \"giffy\", to which a connection with gliff has been proposed. As a kind of envelope, a genericization of Jiffy bag.",
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"ref": "1836, George W[illiam] M[acArthur] Reynolds, “Chapter XV”, in The Youthful Impostor. A Novel. … In Two Volumes, volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: E. L. Carey & A. Hart, →OCLC, page 200",
"text": "\"Who says I filched a vipe?\" demanded the indignant thief. \"Say it agin', and I'll wisit your wittualling hoffice§ [footnote: § The Mouth.] in two jiffies, my queer von! I'se as 'onest a k'racter as hany, and doesn't know vot conweyancing‖ [footnote: ‖ Picking pockets, stealing.] is: d' ye 'ear that?\"",
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"ref": "1842 December, “the Editor” [Thomas Hood], “More News from China”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume LXVI, number CCLXIV (Third Part), London: Henry Colburn, Great Marlborough St., →OCLC, page 427",
"text": "Of course it's kill or be killed, so at it you go, like Carter and his wild beasts, only in right down earnest, two or three more Tigers joining in, clash slash, and the sparks flying as thick as in a smith's forge, or at a Terrific Combat at the Surrey or the Wells. Such a shindy is too hot to last, and, accordingly, if you're alive at the end of two jiffies, the chance is that you find yourself making quite a melodramatic Tableau—namely, your bloody sword in one hand, a Chinese pigtail in the other, and four or five weltering Tartars lying round your feet!",
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"ref": "1864, Ulric De Lazie [pseudonym?; copyright entered by Edmund D. Griffin], Dreams within Dreams; a Plagiarism of the Seventeenth Century; Being, Like Most Visions of the Night, a Medley of Old Things and New, New York, N.Y.: P. O'Shea, 104 Bleecker Street, →OCLC, page 233",
"text": "Here Godfroy nodded pleasantly to Claude, who bowed, and was off— / —In a jiffy* to his men, who greeted him with loud hurrahs. In another jiffy, he was on a barrel, making them an oration. In another jiffy, he had hold of a horse, somehow—for the man had contrived already to make himself so popular in Viot, that he could have anything he liked for the asking. [Footnote: * Jiffy.—Let not the reader scorn the word; it is in Webster. \"Jiffy, a moment.\"—Webster.]",
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"ref": "2012, Nigel Peace, “The Wilderness”, in 5ign5 of 1if3: A Hilarious Novel of Life and Death, Gobowen, Shropshire: Local Legend Publishing",
"text": "\"Plonker!\" Harry shouted. Sgt Glum arrived at the double from the newly extended kitchen were the SAS were billeted. / \"Sah?\" / \"Prepare the men, Sergeant, we're on the march in two jiffies.\" \"Yessah! Where to, sah?\"",
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"ref": "2015, Johanna Ullrich, Edgar R. Weippl, “Protection through Isolation: Virtues and Pitfalls”, in Ryan Ko, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, editors, The Cloud Security Ecosystem: Technical, Legal, Business and Management Issues (Syngress Advanced Topics in Information Security), Waltham, Mass.: Syngress, page 135",
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"sense": "very short, unspecified length of time",
"word": "ommesientjie"
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"sense": "very short, unspecified length of time",
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"feminine"
],
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"feminine"
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"sense": "very short, unspecified length of time",
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"masculine"
],
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"sense": "very short, unspecified length of time",
"word": "წამი"
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"sense": "very short, unspecified length of time",
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"sense": "very short, unspecified length of time",
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"code": "it",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "very short, unspecified length of time",
"word": "num piscar de olhos"
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"sense": "very short, unspecified length of time",
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"roman": "minutu",
"sense": "very short, unspecified length of time",
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "very short, unspecified length of time",
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "very short, unspecified length of time",
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "very short, unspecified length of time",
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"sense": "very short, unspecified length of time",
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "very short, unspecified length of time",
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "very short, unspecified length of time",
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "very short, unspecified length of time",
"word": "lahza"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sistémnyj tik",
"sense": "(computing) Unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer",
"word": "систе́мный тик"
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"Jiffy (time)"
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