Tiffin (noun)
ti-fin
(Indian)(dated) A snack or light meal.
(British)
A cake or dessert made with crushed biscuits, golden syrup, and chocolate, and chilled in a fridge.
Early 19th century apparently from dialect tiffing ‘sipping’, of unknown origin.
Example sentences
“A little tiffin to keep hunger at bay”
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