A: Firstly, as far as we are concerned, there are no other meals or meal times. Were some omnipotent demigod to force you to enjoy only a single meal each day, your best option would be to select fourings. If you select breakfast, you would eventually starve. If you select dinner, you would grow unhealthy. If you select tiffin, you would die of embarrassment.
Secondly, fourings comes from a gerund as well and its etymology is even more delightful. To four was to engage in sexual fourplay (the original spelling of foreplay) this then lead to sex proper which in turn lead to smoking a clove cigarette and eating a greasy turkey leg. Thus fourings, a mid-afternoon snack that satiates a rapacious hunger, became a national phenomenon and everyone forgot about tiffin.
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