Anglo-Ind. [app. abbreviation of or back-formation from tiff-ing, TIFFIN.] intr. = TIFFIN v., to lunch.
1803. Elphinstone, in Colebrooke, Life (1884), I. v. 116. We were interrupted by a summons to tiff. at Floyer’s. After tiffin Close said he should be glad to go.
1816. ‘Quiz,’ Grand Master, VIII. 230. The huntsman now inform’d them all, They were to tiff at Bobb’ry Hall.
1825. T. Hook, Sayings, Ser. II. Passion & Princ., iii. ‘I’m afraid you won’t like our tiffin, Walford.’… ‘I have tiffed,’ said Walford.
1859. Lang, Wand. India, 16. I will tiff with you to-day at half-past two.
