Eating or drinking out of meal time, disputing or falling out; also lying with a wench, A tiff of punch, a small bowl of punch.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
Tidy * TilbukyNathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang
John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes