Crossword clues for tiffin
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tiffin \Tif"fin\, n. [Properly, tiffing a quaffing, a drinking. See Tiff, n.] A lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; -- originally, a Provincial English word, but introduced into India, and brought back to England in a special sense.
Wiktionary
n. (context UK India English) A light midday meal or snack; luncheon. vb. (context UK India intransitive English) To eat a light midday meal or snack.
WordNet
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 7862
Land area (2000): 6.494442 sq. miles (16.820526 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.141731 sq. miles (0.367082 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.636173 sq. miles (17.187608 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76778
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 41.116834 N, 83.179003 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 44883
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Housing Units (2000): 457
Land area (2000): 2.989005 sq. miles (7.741486 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.989005 sq. miles (7.741486 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78060
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.706432 N, 91.661471 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Tiffin
Wikipedia
Tiffin is an Indian English word for a light midday meal ( luncheon), When used in place of the word "lunch", it does not necessarily mean a light meal.
Tiffin may refer to:
- Tiffin, a light meal eaten during the day
Tiffin is a form of cake-like confection composed of crushed biscuits (most commonly digestive biscuits), sugar, syrup, raisins and cocoa powder, often covered with a layer of melted chocolate. Unlike regular cakes, Tiffin does not require baking. Instead, following preparation of the mixture, the confection is chilled until set. As a consequence the product may also be known as ' fridge cake' or another similar term. It was invented in the early 1900s in Troon, Scotland.
The confectioner Cadbury produces a chocolate bar called "Tiffin", consisting of biscuit pieces and raisins in chocolate, as part of its Dairy Milk range.
Tiffin (1926 – 7 March 1931) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare, who was undefeated in a career of eight races. Tiffin won five races in 1928 including the National Breeders' Produce Stakes at Sandown Park and the Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket and was the highest-rated British two-year-old of either sex. Her three-year-old season was disrupted by illness and injury, but she won all three of her starts, proving herself the year's best sprinter with wins in the July Cup at Newmarket and the King George Stakes at Goodwood. At her peak she was regarded as one of the fastest racehorses in the world. At the end of her racing career she was retired to stud where she produced one foal before dying in 1931.
Usage examples of "tiffin".
Mellish was nervously anxious to go straight to his Fumigatory, and talked at random until tiffin was over and His Excellency asked him to smoke.
The breakfast that was to make up for nine missed meals, not to mention odd tiffins that Mother had brought along, came in a half-kilo block, dense, solid and vacuum-packed in silver-coloured plastic that was covered with instructions in twelve languages.
The young dabbawalla skipped nimbly through the shadow-crowd, because he was used to such conditions, think, Spoono, picture, thirty-forty tiffins in a long wooden tray on your head, and when the local train stops you have maybe one minute to push on or off, and then running in the streets, flat out, yaar, with the trucks buses scooters cycles and what-all, one-two, one-two, lunch, lunch, the dabbas must get through, and in the monsoon running down the railway line when the train broke down, or waist-deep in water in some flooded street, and there were gangs, Salad baba, truly, organized gangs of dabba-stealers, it's a hungry city, baby, what to tell you, but we could handle them, we were everywhere, knew everything, what thieves could escape our eyes and ears, we never went to any policia, we looked after our own.
Alan Abercrombie, assistant professor of comparative mantics, sleek, blond, handsome, the lion of the tiffins.
On the grubby movie screen on which, earlier in the journey, the inflight inevitability of Walter Matthau had stumbled lugubriously into the aerial ubiquity of Goldie Hawn, there were shadows moving, projected by the nostalgia of the hostages, and the most sharply defined of them was this spindly adolescent, Ismail Najmuddin, mummy's angel in a Gandhi cap, running tiffins across the town.