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jiffy

Best crossword clue

"Brief instant"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈd͡ʒɪ.fi/Part of speech nounSorted ffijyStarts with JEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)

Used in a sentence

  • 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 parliament.
  • "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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