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Subject: tiffin: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Nov. 28, 2014

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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