#teuce
Trice…A brief period of time: As a noun, "trice" means a very short time, or an instant. It is most often used in the phrase "in a trice," which means "very quickly" or "in a flash".
Example: "She'll be ready in a trice".
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my liefs:
have roamed the countryside closer to a century,
except in places
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
(vintage 1870’s poem from Kansas)
has ever been heard,
"She'll be ready in a trice"
bespoke
it could be localized,
thus the health authorities
should be able to contain it,
in a trice?
the treasurer of kept words,
confirms its usage since 1800
has declined dramatically
but as of yet, never full eradicated,
{espy below}
but in fact its origin as a sailor’s terminology,
which most likely, explains,
it’s absence
from the tongues of proper folk,
while most recent outbreak
was spotted (outlined, envision, striped?)
in Illo’noise
I do not sense an urgent demand,
for the phrase’s resuscitation,
as long as good middle class mouths yet say,
”she’ll be down in a jiffy”
which properly has caused great nervousness
among many the visages of many a young lad of recent vintage,
on prom nights throughout the land,
as no one knows what a jiffy is,
(inacondom, conundrum?)
especially when slang
is busy updating,
this quaint dialectical
of “American”
of mostly stolen words
from other well spoken thieving places
would you fancy you a cuppa “tay”
while deliberating this new found piece
of knowledge
[see below below and yes,
mispronounced by trillions of westerners]
while pondering this e~scripture,
it will be ready most nice in a
jiffy of trice…
the work of the kitbag is never done…sigh
Nov 18, 2025
Nov 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM UTC