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tiffined

tiffined is the simple past and past participle of tiffin.

Meaning of tiffin

Verb

tiffin (third-person singular simple present tiffins, present participle tiffining, simple past and past participle tiffined)

  1. (India, UK, intransitive) To eat a (light) midday meal or snack.
    • Do you know that he tiffins with her three times a week, and every night, after leaving here, he finishes the evening in her society, sitting in the veranda and smoking cigarettes till all hours.1884, B[ithia] M[ary] Croker, Pretty Miss Neville. A Novel. (Harper's Franklin Square Library; no. 363), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Bros., →OCLC, page 328
    Synonyms:
    tiff

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Questions about tiffined

What is tiffined the simple past and past participle of?
Tiffined is the simple past and past participle of tiffin.

Words near tiffined in the dictionary

  1. Tiffany problem
  2. tiffanyite
  3. tiffed
  4. Tiffies
  5. tiffin
  6. tiffined
  7. tiffing
  8. tiffings
  9. tiffining
  10. tiffins
  11. tiffish

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