Reverse Dictionary: MOMENT

ADVERBS
► IN A QUACK in a mere moment; quickly, in the shortest possible time → c1840 Sc.
► IN A TWITCH in a moment; very quickly, without delay → 1726 obs.
► LIKE WINKY very quickly; in a moment; as in the twinkling of an eye → 1855 Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► ARTICLE a moment in time which joins two successive periods; a specific juncture in time; a critical point or moment → a1398
► BAT a short time, a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BAT OF AN EYE a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BLINK a moment → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BRACE OF SHAKES a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BREATH a very short time; a moment → 1917 Amer. dial.
► CAT-LOUP a moment of time → 1821 Eng. dial.
► COUPLE OF HUMPS a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► COUPLE OF JERKS a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► COUPLE OF KICKS a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► COUPLE OF SHAKES a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► COUPLE OF WINKS a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► CRACK a short time; a moment; an instant → 1725 colloq.
► EYEWINK an instant; a moment → 1836
► FARTING-SPELL a very short period of time; a moment → 19C Amer. dial.
► FLASH a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GLIFF a short space of time, an instant, a moment → 1816 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► GLIFFY a short space of a time; a moment → 1820 Sc.
► HALF-A-JIFFY a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► HALF A MO a moment → L19 colloq.
► HALF-A-SHAKE a moment, a very short time → 20C NZ sl.
► HANDCLAP a clap of the hands; the brief space of time this takes; an instant, a moment → 1822
► HANDLANG-WHILE a moment, an instant, a span of time → c1460 obs.
► HANDWHILE a moment, an instant; a little while; a short span of time → c1000 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HANTERIN a moment, a short space of time → 1885 Sc.
► HEART-BEAT a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► JERK a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► JIFFIN ►JIFFING an instant or moment → 1815 Amer. dial.
► JIFFY a short time; a moment → 1793 colloq.
► LESS THAN NO TIME a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LITTLE BIT a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LITTLE MINUTE, A  a moment, a minute → 1903 Eng. dial.   (Bk.)
► MO a moment; a second → 1896 sl.
► MOIND a moment → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► NICK a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► NO TIME a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► ODD-COME-SHORT an idle moment; some day soon to come; some time; an indefinite period; an odd moment → 1883 Amer. dial.
► PIG’S-WHISTLE a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PRICK a moment; an instant of time → 1340
► PRICK OF TIME a moment; an instant of time → c1475 obs.
► PUNCT a quarter of an hour; also, a moment, an instant → a1000 obs.
► PUNCTILIO OF TIME a moment, an instant → 1620 obs.
► QUACK a brief moment; a trice, the shortest possible time → 1882 Sc. obs.
► QUICK an instant, a moment → 1986 Amer. dial.
► RAP a moment → 1768 Sc.
► SHAKE a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SHAKE OF A BRASS MONKEY’S TAIL a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SIQUARE period or point of time; moment → a1300 obs.
► SNATCH a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SPOT a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► STYME a glimpse or glance; the last bit or quantity of anything; a moment of time → 1776 chiefly Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► TANTILLATION a trifling space of time; a moment of time → 1651 obs.
► TICK a moment, a second, an instant → 1879 colloq.
► TICK-TACK a second; a moment; a short space of time → 1881 Eng. dial.
► TIFFIN a moment of time → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TWINK a winking of the eye; the time taken by this; a twinkling; the shortest possible space of time; a moment → a1400
► TWINKLING the time taken in winking the eye; a very brief period; a moment, an instant → 1303
► TWINKLING OF A BEDPOST a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TWO SHAKES a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TWO SHAKES OF A BRASS MONKEY’S TAIL a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TWO SHAKES OF A DEAD SHEEP’S TAIL ► TWO SHAKES OF A SHEEP’S TAIL a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TWO SHAKES OF A LAMB’S TAIL a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TWO TWO’S a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TWO WHOOPS AND A HELLO ► TWO WHOOPS AND A HOLLER  a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► WHIP the brief time taken by a sudden movement; a moment, an instant → c1450 obs. exc. Sc.
► WHIPSTITCH a short space of time; a moment → 1899 Amer. dial.
► WIFFIN a moment → 19C Sc.
► WINK a short time; a moment → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)