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Definition of Tiffing
1. tiff [v] - See also: tiff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tiffing
Literary usage of Tiffing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"83. 1810.—"The (Mahommedan) ladies. Hi- ours, indulge in tiffing! (slight repart*),
it being delicate to eat but little before с- з ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Wedgwood says it ' is the North-country tiffing (properly ... E. tiff, to quaff;
whence the bb. tiffin' = tiffing, a quaffing, a drinking. See Tiff (2). ..."
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