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tiffin
/ˈtɪf.ɪn/
name 4noun 3verb 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
cool
VERB + TIFFIN
met, took
TIFFIN + NOUN
home, supper
PREP.
from
Definitions
noun
1
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.
2
A box or container used to carry a tiffin.
"Young memsahib, an empty tiffin box costs ten rupees in the market. With the food, it's worth maybe fifteen rupees. Do you think I could retire after I steal it?" the man said. “I'm getting late. Do you want your husband to get his lunch or not? That last one's for him, isn't it?" He jerked his chin at the tiffin Anahita was still hugging.
3
A cake-like confection composed of crushed biscuits, sugar, syrup, raisins, cherries and cocoa powder, often covered with a layer of melted chocolate.
verb
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.
name
1
A surname.
2
A small city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States.
3
An unincorporated community in St. Clair County, Missouri, United States.
4
A city, the county seat of Seneca County, Ohio, United States.
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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He took his tiffin from home and ate the food two hours later in school.
Wiktionary02
[…] 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.
Wiktionary03
That garden belongs to Manockjee Metta; that day many of us met and had tiffin and supper. At tiffin there were ten of us.
Wiktionary04
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.
Wiktionary05
Pack had been tiffining by himself to the right of the arch, and had heard everything.
Wiktionary06
Slept, tiffined, and read in heat of the day. At 4 p.m. hunted again, and finished the evening with a jolly good dinner.
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