Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

caff

/kæf/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.86 in modern English

Syllables: caff
IPA: /kæf/

12

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of café.

British usage; Slang

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."
"McCormack dressed in his second-best suit and walked down the hill to a caff on Dumbarton Road."

Etymology

Clipping of cafeteria.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /kæf/
British English: /kæf/

Usage

British usage
Slang

Inflected Forms

caffs (plural) caf (alternative)

Synonyms

automat beanery buffet cafeteria caff canteen cookhouse cookshack diner dining hall eatery hashery

Homonyms

caf caffe calf caph kaf kaph

Rhymes With

half staff laugh graph block graph af calf raf giraffe aff caf herschel graph

Questions

How do you pronounce caff?: The recorded pronunciation is /kæf/.
What does caff mean?: Synonym of café.
Where does caff come from?: Clipping of cafeteria.

How to pronounce caff

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