jiffs

Example Sentences

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"Tell you what," Dick suggested; "if you hop in and look after Mollie, Jerry and I will push the bike to the smithy; we'll be after you in two jiffs."

From The Happy Adventurers by Middleton, Lydia Miller

"I know a most trustworthy person; his name is Richard Lorton, and he will go for 'em in a brace of jiffs," said Dick.

From Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden by Garvice, Charles

The tea's in the pot and I'll have it ready in a couple of jiffs.

From Widdershins by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

“I can run him up to the station in two jiffs in that.”

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold