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Pura Vida

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Jiffy has a number of specific meanings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiffy_(time)

Not sure 1/100th second is at all usual, 1/50th or 1/60th are much more common...

Purple rhymes with Hurple - To hurkle or hurple is to draw one's limbs in and scrunch up the shoulders in reaction to the cold or in a storm.
 
Regarding "Dreamt", we also have:

Appromt - To quicken; to prompt.

Undreamt - not imagined even in a dream

Also via https://www.crosswordsolver.org/quicksolve.php we have:

Iodous - Pertaining to, or containing, iodine. See -ous (chemical suffix).
Nodous - Nodose; knotty; knotted.

Apodous - (of snakes and eels) naturally footless; "eels are apodal"
Koudous - either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush
Olidous - Having a strong, disagreeable smell; fetid.

Blendous - Pertaining to, consisting of, or containing, blende (Any of various shiny minerals composed chiefly of metallic sulfides).
Frondous - Frondose.
Timidous - Timid.
Vanadous - of or containing vanadium

Just one more definition:

Pedantic - me!
 
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