Tiffin

Quick meaning: Tiffin is a noun meaning (British, India) A (light) midday meal or snack; luncheon.

Meaning

(British, India) A (light) midday meal or snack; luncheon.

More Meanings

1. (British, India) A box or container used to carry a tiffin.
2. (British, India, intransitive) To eat a (light) midday meal or snack.
3. A cake-like confection composed of crushed biscuits, sugar, syrup, raisins, cherries and cocoa powder, often covered with a layer of melted chocolate.

Example Sentences

He took his tiffin from home and ate the food two hours later in school.

That garden belongs to Manockjee Metta; that day many of us met and had tiffin and supper. At tiffin there were ten of us.

[…] 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.

Had tiffin at 11.30 a.m. 1½ rations of rice with fried fish. Added frying oil and soup powder. Excellent, both in quantity and quality, but stomach is a bit troublesome. Can't wonder at it really!

Word Forms

• tiffins
• tiffining
• tiffined

Synonyms for tiffin

Depending on context, synonyms include tiff, dabba, tingkat, luncheon, lunch, dejeuner.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lunch, luncheon, dejeuner, tuck, lunch-time, linner.

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