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caff

/kæf/

caff noun: synonym of café.

Noun

caff (plural caffs)

  1. (Ireland, UK, slang) Synonym of café.
    • 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...1912, Stephen Leacock, “The Hostelry of Mr. Smith”, in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, page 27
    • 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.2012, Suzanne Hall, City, Street and Citizen, Routledge, →ISBN, page 52

Examples of caff in a sentence

  • No one in Mariposa had ever seen anything like the caff.1912, Stephen Leacock, “The Hostelry of Mr. Smith”, in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, page 27:
  • McCormack dressed in his second-best suit and walked down the hill to a caff on Dumbarton Road.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 200:

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Synonyms of caff

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Forms of caff

pluralcaffs
alternative formcaf

Origin of caff

Clipping of cafeteria.

Words that rhyme with caff

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Questions about caff

What does caff mean?
Caff means synonym of café.
How do you use caff in a sentence?
No one in Mariposa had ever seen anything like the caff.
What part of speech is caff?
Caff is a noun.
How do you pronounce caff?
Caff is pronounced /kæf/ (UK).
What is the plural of caff?
The plural of caff is caffs.

Words near caff in the dictionary

  1. cafetière
  2. cafetières
  3. cafetoria
  4. cafetorium
  5. cafetoriums
  6. caff
  7. caffa
  8. caffe
  9. caffeamide
  10. caffeamides
  11. caffearin

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