Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to tiffin
Participle: tiffined
Gerund: tiffining
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | tiffin |
| you | tiffin |
| he;she;it | tiffins |
| we | tiffin |
| you | tiffin |
| they | tiffin |
Perfect
| I | have tiffined |
| you | have tiffined |
| he;she;it | has tiffined |
| we | have tiffined |
| you | have tiffined |
| they | have tiffined |
Past
| I | tiffined |
| you | tiffined |
| he;she;it | tiffined |
| we | tiffined |
| you | tiffined |
| they | tiffined |
Pluperfect
| I | had tiffined |
| you | had tiffined |
| he;she;it | had tiffined |
| we | had tiffined |
| you | had tiffined |
| they | had tiffined |
Future
| I | will tiffin |
| you | will tiffin |
| he;she;it | will tiffin |
| we | will tiffin |
| you | will tiffin |
| they | will tiffin |
Future Perfect
| I | will have tiffined |
| you | will have tiffined |
| he;she;it | will have tiffined |
| we | will have tiffined |
| you | will have tiffined |
| they | will have tiffined |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | tiffin |
| you | tiffin |
| he;she;it | tiffin |
| we | tiffin |
| you | tiffin |
| they | tiffin |
Perfect
| I | have tiffined |
| you | have tiffined |
| he;she;it | have tiffined |
| we | have tiffined |
| you | have tiffined |
| they | have tiffined |
Imperfect
| I | tiffined |
| you | tiffined |
| he;she;it | tiffined |
| we | tiffined |
| you | tiffined |
| they | tiffined |
Pluperfect
| I | had tiffined |
| you | had tiffined |
| he;she;it | had tiffined |
| we | had tiffined |
| you | had tiffined |
| they | had tiffined |
Conditional
Present
| I | would tiffin |
| you | would tiffin |
| he;she;it | would tiffin |
| we | would tiffin |
| you | would tiffin |
| they | would tiffin |
Perfect
| I | would have tiffined |
| you | would have tiffined |
| he;she;it | would have tiffined |
| we | would have tiffined |
| you | would have tiffined |
| they | would have tiffined |
Imperative
| you | tiffin |
| we | Let's tiffin |
| you | tiffin |
Verbs conjugated like 'tiffin'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'tiffin'
coffin,
diffind,
diffine,
stiffen,
tiff,
affine,
affix,
biff,
diff,
differ,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Apparently from English tiffing, present participle of tiff (“to take a small drink, to sip”) (slang). See: English '
tiffing'.
Sample Sentences
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Do you know that he tiffins with her three times a week, and every night, after leaving here, he finishes the evening in her society, sitting in the veranda and smoking cigarettes till all hours. [1884, B[ithia] M[ary] Croker, Pretty Miss Neville. A Novel. (Harper's Franklin Square Library; no. 363), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Bros., →OCLC, page 328:]
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Pack had been tiffining by himself to the right of the arch, and had heard everything. [1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Bisara of Pooree”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., →OCLC, page 223:]
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Slept, tiffined, and read in heat of the day. At 4 p.m. hunted again, and finished the evening with a jolly good dinner. [1899, Henry Keppel, A Sailor's Life under Four Sovereigns, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co.; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan Co., →OCLC, page 336:]
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And so I lay at Arashiyama which is near Kyoto, in a yellow straw tea-house overlooking the beautiful river of which I have written, my mouth full of fried mountain trout and my soul soaking in a great calm. […] The lady of the tea-house insisted upon screening us off from the other pleasure-parties who were tiffining in the same verandah, and we were left alone with the trout. [1988, Rudyard Kipling, “1889: Letter Six”, in Hugh Cortazzi, George Webb, editors, Kipling's Japan: Collected Writings, London; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: The Athlone Press, →ISBN, page 98:]
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From the diary it would appear that the main activities were shooting, walking, and alternating meals on each other's boat. "We dined with them. They tiffined with us." "Tiffined with them. They dined with us." [2011, Elizabeth Clinch, Nicholas Clinch, Through a Land of Extremes: The Littledales of Central Asia (Legends and Lore Series), Seattle, Wash.: The Mountaineers Books, →ISBN, page 73:]