Crossword-Solution: TIFFING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tiffing | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Tiff |
We have 1 clue for the answer “TIFFING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Quarreling in small way. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AERA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with TIFFING (2)
Davies (_Supplemental English Glossary_) gives some good quotations both of this substantive and of a verb "_to tiff_," in the sense of 'take off a draught.' We should conjecture that Grose's sense was a modification of this one, that his "_tiffing_" was a participial noun from the verb to _tiff_, and that the Indian TIFFIN is identical with the participial noun.
This has perhaps some corroboration both from the form "_tiffing_" used in some earlier Indian examples, and from the Indian use of the verb "TO TIFF." [This view is accepted by Prof.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1949).