Crossword-Solution: TIFFIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tiffin | n. | 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. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “TIFFIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Actress Pamela | 1 answer |
| British lunch | 1 answer |
| Can containing one doubly fine meal | 1 answer |
| Indian English word for a light midday meal | 1 answer |
| Light Indian meal | 1 answer |
| Light lunch, to Brits | 1 answer |
| Lunch, in Lancaster | 1 answer |
| Luncheon | 1 answer |
| Luncheon, in London | 1 answer |
| Sahib's lunch. | 1 answer |
| Sahib's word for lunch. | 1 answer |
| *Lunch | 15 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TIFFIN (5)
There were a lot of nice English people going out to India to meet their husbands and we have "tiffin" and "choota" and "curry," so it really seemed oriental.
Wesley Moyer’s stallion, Tony Tip, was to race at the June meeting at Tiffin, Ohio, and there was a rumor that he would meet the stiffest competition of his career.
The tiffin was laid on one end only of the long table, and the punkah was stirring the hot air lazily--mostly above a barren waste of polished wood.
What trouble? All I could remember was being mystified and bored by his conversation for a solid hour after tiffin.
Some years ago a luncheon--"tiffin" we call it in China--was given in my honor at a Peking restaurant by a couple of friends; the hour was fixed at noon sharp.
Quotes with TIFFIN (2)
I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.
The secrets of the kitchen were revealed to you in stages, on a need-to-know basis, just like the secrets of womanhood. You started wearing bras; you started handling the pressure cooker for lentils. You went from wearing skirts and half saris to wearing full saris, and at about the same time you got to make the rice-batter crepes called dosas for everyone’s tiffin. You did not get told the secret ratio of spices for the house-made sambar curry powder until you came of marria…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1954–2024).