lunch, luncheon, tiffin, dejeuner
(noun) a midday meal
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Tiffin (countable and uncountable, plural Tiffins)
A surname.
A small city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States.
An unincorporated community in St. Clair County, Missouri, United States.
A city, the county seat of Seneca County, Ohio, United States.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Tiffin is the 27678th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 869 individuals. Tiffin is most common among White (93.67%) individuals.
tiffin (countable and uncountable, plural tiffins)
(Britain, India) A (light) midday meal or snack; luncheon.
(Britain, India) A container used to carry a tiffin; tiffin box, tiffin carrier, tiffin container.
tiffin (third-person singular simple present tiffins, present participle tiffining, simple past and past participle tiffined)
(Britain, India, intransitive) To eat a (light) midday meal or snack.
• tiff
Source: Wiktionary
Tif"fin, n. Etym: [Properly, tiffing a quaffing, a drinking. See Tiff, n.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 January 2025
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
