tiffin \ TIF-in \, verb;
1.to eat lunch.
2.to provide lunch for; serve lunch to.
noun:
1.lunch.
Quotes:
…they fell upon the comestibles in a manner which astonished the people of the tea-house where they tiffined , and the villagers who, according to long-established custom, came to lounge about and stare at them, and who were filled with wonder at seeing such a formidable assembly of 'foreign fools,' which is their not too polite term for Europeans.
-- Annie Carruthers, The Pet of the Consulate , 1882
There must have been two or three men passing by to whom the announcement meant the loss of every penny of their savings--comforting knowledge to digest after tiffin .
-- Rudyard Kipling, "Some Earthquakes," Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling: Letters of Travel , 1920
Origin:
Tiffin is thought to be a variant of tiffing . It entered English in the late 1700s.
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