tiffin
Plural: tiffins
Noun
- a midday meal
- A (light) midday meal or snack; luncheon.
- 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.
Verb
Verb Forms: tiffined, tiffining, tiffins
- To eat a light midday meal; to lunch.
- To eat a (light) midday meal or snack.
Examples
- He decided to TIFFIN with a quick sandwich before resuming his Words With Friends match.
- He took his tiffin from home and ate the food two hours later in school.
Origin / Etymology
Apparently from English tiffing, present participle of tiff (“to take a small drink, to sip”) (slang).
Scrabble Score: 12
tiffin: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordtiffin: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tiffin: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 13
tiffin: valid Words With Friends Word