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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a midday meal [syn: lunch, luncheon, tiffin, dejeuner]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: probably alteration of tiffing, gerund of obsolete English tiff to eat between meals Date: 1800 chiefly British a light midday meal ; luncheon

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. Ind. --n. a light meal, esp. lunch. --v.intr. (tiffined, tiffining) take lunch etc. Etymology: app. f. tiffing sipping

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tiffin Tif"fin, n. [Properly, tiffing a quaffing, a drinking. See Tiff, 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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Luncheon.