Lexicographical Neighbors of Tiffings
Literary usage of Tiffings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"The (Mahommedan) ladies, like ours, indulge in tiffings (slight repast«), it
being delicate to eat but little before company."— Williamson, VM i. ..."
2. Little Classics by Rossiter Johnson (1875)
"... pronounce a choice, or a preference, lest it might be disagreeable to the
other; and hence there occasionally did arise little bickerings, and tiffings, ..."
3. Little Classics edited by Rossiter Johnson (1875)
"... pronounce a choice, or a preference, lest it might be disagreeable to the
other; and hence there occasionally did arise little bickerings, and tiffings, ..."
4. Comic Sketches and Recollections by John Poole (1843)
"... pronounce a choice or a preference, lest it might be disagreeable to the other;
and hence there occasionally did arise little bickerings, and tiffings, ..."
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