kefi
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Greek κέφι (kéfi).
Noun edit
kefi (uncountable)
- High spirits, ebullience, chiefly in Greece or among Greek people.
- 1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 55:
- ‘You have too many high spirits, altogether too much kefi, to be a good husband.’
- 2015, Nikolaos Papadogiannis, Militant Around the Clock?, Berghahn, published 2019, page 111:
- Music was a context in which men and women, regardless of their political orientation, could express emotions, especially of grief and kefi, in modern Greece.
- 2019, Tina Bucuvelas, editor, Greek Music in America:
- Kefi is achieved methodically and systematically through drink, increasingly intimate subject matter in the songs sung, escalating expressions of feelings, and private relationships among the guests.