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tiffining

tiffining is the present participle and gerund 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 tiffining

What is tiffining the present participle and gerund of?
Tiffining is the present participle and gerund of tiffin.

Words near tiffining in the dictionary

  1. Tiffies
  2. tiffin
  3. tiffined
  4. tiffing
  5. tiffings
  6. tiffining
  7. tiffins
  8. tiffish
  9. tiffoon
  10. tiffoons
  11. tiffs

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