• IPA: /ˈtɪfɪn/

tiffin

1. (Britain, India) A (light) midday meal or snack; luncheon.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July​, William Makepeace Thackeray, “The Green Silk Purse”, in Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108 ↗, page 31 ↗:

     {...}} I bought a pine-apple at the same time, which I gave to Sambo. Let's have it for tiffin; very cool and nice this hot weather.

2. (Britain, India) A container used to carry a tiffin; tiffin box, tiffin carrier, tiffin container.

tiffin (tiffins, present participle tiffining; past and past participle tiffined)

1. (Britain, India, intransitive) To eat a (light) midday meal or snack.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Bisara of Pooree”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., OCLC 228690273 ↗; 2nd edition, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., 1889, OCLC 904346177 ↗, pages 254–255 ↗:

     Pack had been tiffining by himself to the right of the arch, and had heard everything.

• tiff

1. Surname
2. A small city in Johnson County, Iowa.
3. An unincorporated community in St. Clair County, Missouri.
4. A city/county seat in Seneca County, Ohio.