tiffin
IPA: tˈɪfɪn
noun
- (Britain, India) A (light) midday meal or snack; luncheon.
- (Britain, India) 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.
- 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.
verb
- (Britain, India, intransitive) To eat a (light) midday meal or snack.
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Examples of "tiffin" in Sentences
- Famous for tiffin in railway road.
- Tiffin is lunch, or any light meal.
- It is nice to see the Tiffin campus coming along.
- The page must not be merged with Tiffin University.
- There is a system of distributing tiffin in the school.
- Tiffin would be benched for the remainder of the season.
- By the way, tiffin appears to be a word unique to India.
- In parts of India a light, portable lunch is known as tiffin.
- - usually stainless steel, aluminum, or tin - called tiffin boxes.
- "General, your tiffin was a beauty, but your Camp -- was very sad!"
- A few emails to Indian friends turned up "tiffin" services in Hong Kong.
- AS THE menu says, the word tiffin harks back to the 19th century and the days of British rule in India.
- The favorite meal for everyone was tea-time (4pm-6pm) called "tiffin" when we were served tea and a snack.
- Mom's page is the health page where delicious and healthy tiffin box recipes and family meal recipes are given.
- Two minutes later the girls, Ned, and Dick came into the dining-room, and the party sat down to luncheon -- a meal always called tiffin in India.
- Mr. Shinde says the restaurant no longer users the stainless-steel containers of the its namesake — "tiffin" is the container, and "wallah" the delivery guy — but lunch still arrives compartmentalized, and cheap.
- "tiffin" -- Burleigh being very Indianized, and a guest always welcome; indeed, so Indianized is it, so populous in jaundiced cheek and ailing livers, that you may openly assert, without fear of being misunderstood
- My M-W#11 says "(1800) chiefly Brit: a light midday meal: LUNCHEON" -- the people in India who deliver lunches to office workers (lunches prepared by their old mamas etc.), aren't they called tiffin wallahs or something Colonel Blimpish like that?
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