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tiffin

noun
/ˈtɪf.ɪn/

Etymology

Apparently from English tiffing, present participle of tiff (“to take a small drink, to sip”) (slang).

  1. derived from tiffing

Definitions

  1. A (light) midday meal or snack

    A (light) midday meal or snack; luncheon.

    • He took his tiffin from home and ate the food two hours later in school.
    • […] I bought a pine-apple at the same time, which I gave to Sambo. Let's have it for tiffin; very cool and nice this hot weather.
    • That garden belongs to Manockjee Metta; that day many of us met and had tiffin and supper. At tiffin there were ten of us.

  2. A box or container used to carry a tiffin.

  3. A cake-like confection composed of crushed biscuits, sugar, syrup, raisins, cherries and…

    A cake-like confection composed of crushed biscuits, sugar, syrup, raisins, cherries and cocoa powder, often covered with a layer of melted chocolate.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. To eat a (light) midday meal or snack.

      • Do you know that he tiffins with her three times a week, and every night, after leaving here, he finishes the evening in her society, sitting in the veranda and smoking cigarettes till all hours.
      • Pack had been tiffining by himself to the right of the arch, and had heard everything.
      • Slept, tiffined, and read in heat of the day. At 4 p.m. hunted again, and finished the evening with a jolly good dinner.

    2. A surname.

    3. A small city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States.

    4. An unincorporated community in St. Clair County, Missouri, United States.

    5. A city, the county seat of Seneca County, Ohio, United States.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA