caff
English
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editcaff (plural caffs)
- (Britain, Ireland, slang) café, cafeteria.
- Synonyms: caf; see also Thesaurus:restaurant
- 1912, Stephen Leacock, “The Hostelry of Mr. Smith”, in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, page 27:
- No one in Mariposa had ever seen anything like the caff. All down the side of it were the grill fires, with great pewter dish covers that went up and down on a chain, […] ; you could watch a buckwheat pancake whirled into existence under your eyes and see fowls' legs devilled, peppered, grilled, and tormented till they lost all semblance of the original Mariposa chicken.
- 2012, Suzanne Hall, City, Street and Citizen, Routledge, →ISBN, page 52:
- After working his way up in restaurant kitchens, Nick's father bought a caff off the Walworth Road, and named it The Bosphorus in homage to a cultural homeland elsewhere.
- 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 200:
- McCormack dressed in his second-best suit and walked down the hill to a caff on Dumbarton Road.
Middle English
editNoun
editcaff
- Alternative form of chaf
Scots
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle English calf (“young cow”).
Noun
editcaff
- Alternative form of cauf (“calf (young cow)”)
Etymology 2
editFrom Middle English caf, caff, kaf, kaff, alternative forms of chaf.
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editcaff (uncountable)
References
edit- “caff, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 15 February 2019, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
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