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jiffy
English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?d???.fi/
- Rhymes: -?fi
- Hyphenation: jif?fy
Noun
jiffy (plural jiffies)
- (colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time. [from 1780.]
- 1780, The Town and Country Magazine, vol. 12, p. 88, February 1780.
- 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.
- 1780, The Town and Country Magazine, vol. 12, p. 88, February 1780.
- (computing) A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer – historically, and by convention, 0.01 of a second, but some computer operating systems use other values.
- (electronics) The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second).
- (physics) The time taken for light to travel a specified distance in a vacuum, usually one centimetre, but sometimes one foot or the width of a nucleon.
- (Britain) Short for jiffy bag, a padded envelope.
Synonyms
- (short, unspecified length of time):
- (standard): instant, minute, moment, second, trice
- (colloquial): mo, sec, tick
- jif
- jiff
Derived terms
- Jiffy bag
Translations
References
Further reading
- Eric S[teven] Raymond, editor (29 December 2003) , “jiffy”, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7
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cornmeal
English
Etymology
corn +? meal
Pronunciation
Noun
cornmeal (countable and uncountable, plural cornmeals)
- Dried corn (maize) milled (ground) to a coarse meal.
- She made a kind of polenta from cornmeal and chicken broth, with some cheese sprinkled on top.
Translations
Anagrams
- amelcorn
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