[
US
/ˈdʒɪfi/
]
[ UK /dʒˈɪfi/ ]
[ UK /dʒˈɪfi/ ]
NOUN
-
a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash
How To Use jiffy In A Sentence
- Please wait half a jiffy.
- I opened up the jiffy bag and inside were four pink hard back tomes with some strange alien language on the cover.
- We're told that anyone who can get the knack of skating can get the hang of snowblades in a jiffy.
- She conjured up a whole meal in a jiffy.
- Decorations often take up quite a bit of time at home, but the experts do it in a jiffy, for they have a range of colourful festoons and sprightly buntings in stock, all ready to be hung up at the party venue.
- And in yet another jiffy he was standing on the very edge of the great big dark Forest of Sin!
- Once we get there, I'll have your ride fixed up in a jiffy.
- The rapidly absorbed mist means you can be out of the door in a jiffy. Times, Sunday Times
- The job is done in a jiffy. Times, Sunday Times
- He can memorise in a jiffy series of unassociated names listed by number and recall them by number and vice-versa.