Lexicographical Neighbors of Jiffs
Literary usage of Jiffs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botanical Miscellany: Containing Figures and Descriptions of Such Plants as by William Jackson Hooker (1830)
"An innovation or secondary plant, from one or other of the sides of the
plantule, (jiffs. 10, 12, 13,) near the insertion of the root, now makes its ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1901)
"There are bits of old wall here and there to be seen by him who knows where to
look for them, but, speaking generally, the only old part is the jiffs, ..."
3. An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects: Founded on the by John Obadiah Westwood (1840)
"My jiffs. 69. 2—13. represent various details of ... soma Lucorum, jiffs. 2—9.
exhibiting parts of the mouth ; Jig. 69. 2. shows the front of the head, ..."
4. Bengali Grammar by William Yates, John Wenger (1885)
"The words jiffs, <|t% and \g;, «fl, are added to form adverbs of quality ; as
unns, thus ; C^.fr jiffs, in any way or manner ; ^«. ..."
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