Crossword-Solution: JIFFY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Jiffy | n. | A moment; an instant; as, I will be ready in a jiffy. |
We have 32 clues for the answer “JIFFY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| very short period of time | 1 answer |
| Short span, slangily | 1 answer |
| Quick sec | 1 answer |
| Few seconds | 1 answer |
| "I'll be ready in a ___!" | 1 answer |
| Jiff | 2 answers |
| In a __ (quickly) | 2 answers |
| Half a mo | 2 answers |
| Instant: Colloq. | 3 answers |
| VERY short time (colloq.) | 3 answers |
| A very short time | 4 answers |
| Short time: Colloq. | 4 answers |
| Two shakes | 5 answers |
| Very short time | 8 answers |
| Split second | 8 answers |
| Sec | 9 answers |
| Type of "bag" | 9 answers |
| Trice | 11 answers |
| Blink of an eye | 11 answers |
| Bat of an eye | 13 answers |
| BRIEF moment | 17 answers |
| Short Time | 21 answers |
| Blink | 26 answers |
| Wink? | 26 answers |
| BRIEF period | 28 answers |
| __ moment | 35 answers |
| Second | 43 answers |
| Twinkling | 43 answers |
| Shake | 54 answers |
| Instant | 76 answers |
| flash | 89 answers |
| Time | 99 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with JIFFY (5)
Eureka stuck up her nose at such food, but the tiny piglets squealed delightedly at the sight of the crackers and ate them up in a jiffy.
The baby, of course! In the moment I had--it wasn't long--I'd stooped down, pretending to kiss that cherub good-by, and in a jiffy I'd pinned that precious paper with a safety-pin to the baby's under-petticoat, preferring that risk to-- Risk! I should say it was.
And who should come riding into the town, frightening away the boys, and even the beadle and policeman, but ROSALBA! The fact is, that when Captain Hedzoff entered into the court of Snapdragon Castle, and was discoursing with King Padella, the lions made a dash at the open gate, gobbled up the six beef-eaters in a jiffy, and away they went with Rosalba on the back of one of them, and they carried her, turn and turn about, till they came to the city where Prince Giglio’s army was encamped.
Now if it were afternoon I could bring back dem what-d'ye-call-'ems in a jiffy, 'cause Boomerang allers feels good arter he has his dinnah, but befo' dat--" and Eradicate shook his head, as if there was no more to be said on the subject.
Now, then, get aboard and I'll carry you to him in a jiffy." I'm sure not many little girls would have cared to take that awful ride through the huge black cavern on the back of a skinny Ork.
Quotes with JIFFY (2)
The Brit's face shares a heritage with a junkyard butt-sniffing mutt. It's a hard-earned moonshine mug, dotted with a hairy mole that looks like a rat's been gnawing on it. His beard looks like a white sneeze. The teeth are jagged and out of alignment, having opened quarts at Jiffy Quick Lube for half a decade.
Your printers have made but one blunder, Correct it instanter, and then for the thunder! We'll see in a jiffy if this Mr S[pencer]Has the ghost of a claim to be thought a good fencer. To my vision his merits have still seemed to dwindle, Since I have found him allied with the great Dr T[yndall]While I have, for my part, grown cockier and cockier, Since I found an ally in yourself, Mr L[ockyer]And am always, in consequence, thoroughly willin',To perform in the pages of Nature's M[acmillan].
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1962–2020).