jiffy
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不详，据说是窃贼黑话，原指“光”。亦曾作“giffy”，因此有人提出其与gliff有关[1]。指信封时，其为Jiffy bag商标的通用化形式。
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jiffy (复数 jiffies)
- (口语) 一会，一下子 （自1780年）
- I’ll be back in a jiffy.
- 我马上回来。
- 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.
- 1836, George W[illiam] M[acArthur] Reynolds, “Chapter XV”, 出自 The Youthful Impostor. A Novel. [...] In Two Volumes, 卷 I, Philadelphia, Pa.: E. L. Carey & A. Hart, →OCLC，页号 200:
- "Who says I filched a vipe?" demanded the indignant thief. "Say it agin', and I'll wisit your wittualling hoffice§ [footnote: § The Mouth.] in two jiffies, my queer von! I'se as 'onest a k'racter as hany, and doesn't know vot conweyancing‖ [footnote: ‖ Picking pockets, stealing.] is: d' ye 'ear that?"
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- 1842 December, “the Editor” [Thomas Hood], “More News from China”, 出自 The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, 卷 LXVI, 期 CCLXIV (Third Part), London: Henry Colburn, Great Marlborough St., →OCLC，页号 427:
- Of course it's kill or be killed, so at it you go, like Carter and his wild beasts, only in right down earnest, two or three more Tigers joining in, clash slash, and the sparks flying as thick as in a smith's forge, or at a Terrific Combat at the Surrey or the Wells. Such a shindy is too hot to last, and, accordingly, if you're alive at the end of two jiffies, the chance is that you find yourself making quite a melodramatic Tableau—namely, your bloody sword in one hand, a Chinese pigtail in the other, and four or five weltering Tartars lying round your feet!
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- 1864, Ulric De Lazie [pseudonym?; copyright entered by Edmund D. Griffin], Dreams within Dreams; a Plagiarism of the Seventeenth Century; Being, Like Most Visions of the Night, a Medley of Old Things and New, New York, N.Y.: P. O'Shea, 104 Bleecker Street, →OCLC，页号 233:
- Here Godfroy nodded pleasantly to Claude, who bowed, and was off— / —In a jiffy* to his men, who greeted him with loud hurrahs. In another jiffy, he was on a barrel, making them an oration. In another jiffy, he had hold of a horse, somehow—for the man had contrived already to make himself so popular in Viot, that he could have anything he liked for the asking. [Footnote: * Jiffy.—Let not the reader scorn the word; it is in Webster. "Jiffy, a moment."—Webster.]
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- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, 章号 7, 出自 Mr. Pratt's Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, →OL，页号 166:
- Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern. Then, for a jiffy, I hung on and fought for breath.
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- 2012, Nigel Peace, “The Wilderness”, 出自 5ign5 of 1if3: A Hilarious Novel of Life and Death, Gobowen, Shropshire: Local Legend Publishing, →ISBN:
- "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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- (计算机) 基础计时器的时间单位 （一般指0.01秒，但部分操作系统使用其他值）
- 1980, Carroll S. Donahue, Janice K. Enger, PET-CBM Personal Computer Guide, Berkeley, Calif.: Osborne/McGraw-Hill, →OCLC，页号 283:
- The FOR...NEXT loop for TIME increments by STEP 2 (every two jiffies) for two reasons: 1) the printing of 60 jiffies a second is too fast to read, and 2) the printing of each jiffy takes longer than its incrementations; this would delay the loop, so the printing of TIME$ is slower than it should be.
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- 2015, Johanna Ullrich, Edgar R. Weippl, “Protection through Isolation: Virtues and Pitfalls”, 出自 The Cloud Security Ecosystem: Technical, Legal, Business and Management Issues (Syngress Advanced Topics in Information Security), Waltham, Mass.: Syngress, →ISBN，页号 135:
- The number of processed packets per round is limited in dependence of the page size. The processed packets are forwarded to a single queue and are processed for the time of two jiffies.
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- (电子学) 交流电的周期 （1/60或1/50秒）
- (物理学) 光在真空内穿过特定距离的时间 （一般是一厘米）
- (英国) jiffy bag之简写
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- ↑ The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the Twin Sister Counties, Norfolk and Suffolk, As It Existed in the Last Twenty Years of the Eighteenth Century, And Still Exists; With Proof Of Its Antiquity From Etymology And Authority.