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tiffin

\TIF-in\

verb
1. to eat lunch.
2. to provide lunch for; serve lunch to.

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

Origin

Tiffin is thought to be a variant of tiffing. It entered English in the late 1700s.

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Friday, November 28, 2014

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semana, noun
week

Notice the use of the phrase entre semana meaning during the week.

los que salen entre semana
people who go out on weekdays

Sucedió un dia entre semana.
It happened on a weekday.

La semana is a case where the Spanish and English words bear no resemblance to each other. They don’t look alike because the English word comes from the Germanic side of English, whereas the Spanish word comes from the Late Latin septimana, week. The Latin word also gave birth to the word for week in the Romance languages: French la semaine, Italian la settimana, Portuguese a semana and Romanian s?pt?mân?.

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