Green’s Dictionary of Slang

jildi adv.

quickly.

1885		L. Emanuel Jottings [...] of a Bengal ‘qui hye’ 23: So we of the Bombay Column had to march ‘Juldie-eck-dum’ (quick at once).
1888		Kipling ‘The Three Musketeers’ in Plain Tales from the Hills 65: I sez, ‘Ye black limb, there’s a Sahib comin’ for this hekka. He wants to go jildi to the Padsahi Jhil.’.
1891		Civil & Milit. Gaz. (Lahore) 30 Dec. 5/4: Then soup an’ feese an’ very much turkey, / Jaldi, jaldi, isame like race!
1898		E.S. Mott Mingled Yarn 86: I reclined on my bedding [...] after bidding the driver of the vehicle to ‘jow’ as ‘jeldy’ as was possible.
1919		W.H. Downing Digger Dialects 30: jeldy (Hind.) — Quickly.
1929		(con. 1916) F. Manning Her Privates We (1986) 20: Just fly over the line, take a peek at Fritz, and soon as a bit o’ shrapnel comes their way, fuck off ’ome jildy, toot sweet.
1930		(con. 1914–18) Brophy & Partridge Songs and Sl. of the British Soldier 132: Jildi. — Quick, look sharp, hurry. Also used in the phrase ‘on the jildi’, e.g. ‘Get them bags filled on the jildi’.
1936		Civil & Milit. Gaz. Annual (Lahore) 24: [cartoon caption] The Memsahib (airing her newly-acquired Hindustani): ‘Bolo the khansama we want dinner ek dum, and make it jeldi’.
1963		C. Wood ‘Prisoner and Escort’ in Cockade (1965) I iii: Out – jeldi.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 497: C’mon, compadre, jildy!