tiffin · name — A surname.
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Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, tiffin ranks #16,849 of 42,862 for Qualifying.
tiffin is pronounced /ʈɪ.fɪn/.
Etymology
Apparently from English tiffing, present participle of tiff (“to take a small drink, to sip”) (slang).
name
- A surname.
- A small city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States.
- An unincorporated community in St. Clair County, Missouri, United States.
- A city, the county seat of Seneca County, Ohio, United States.
noun
- A (light) midday meal or snack; luncheon.e.g.“He took his tiffin from home and ate the food two hours later in school.”
- A box or container used to carry a tiffin.
- A cake-like confection composed of crushed biscuits, sugar, syrup, raisins, cherries and cocoa powder, often covered with a layer of melted chocolate.
verb
- To eat a (light) midday meal or snack.e.g.“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.” — 1884, B[ithia] M[ary] Croker, Pretty Miss Neville. A Novel. (Harper's Franklin Square Library; no. 363), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Bros., →OCLC, page 328:
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