Jiffy
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A very short, unspecified length of time. 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. The time taken for light to travel one centimetre in a vacuum (sometimes one foot, or sometimes the width of a nucleon) The time between alternating current power cycles (1/60 or 1/50 of a second)
Trice
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A very short time; an instant; a moment; – now used only in the phrase in a trice.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.To haul and tie up by means of a rope.