Jiffy vs Niffy - What's the difference?
jiffy | niffy |
(colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time.
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, title= (computing) A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer; historically, and by convention, 0.01 seconds, but some 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 one centimetre in a vacuum (sometimes one foot, or sometimes the width of a nucleon)
(colloquial) Having a bad smell.
In colloquial terms the difference between jiffy and niffy
is that jiffy is a very short, unspecified length of time while niffy is having a bad smell.As a noun jiffy
is a very short, unspecified length of time.As an adjective niffy is
having a bad smell.jiffy
English
Noun
(jiffies)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=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.}}