Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cauf

/kɔːf/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cauf
IPA: /kɔːf/

9

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.

noun

Pronunciation spelling of calf.

Example Sentences

"The live fish is now kept in the cauves until sold for consumption in the home-country or abroad."
"An estimate at traffick hez been made be sum foaks, at wor set ta tack noatis, an it appear’d, bit average a wun month, thear wor enter’d Pogmoor an Hickam, fifteen wheelbarras, nine turnap rowlers, eighteen cauves, six sither grinders, wun wattar barril, nine haulin-horses, two pol’d cahs, three pair a cuts, wun hearse, sixteen dogs, three sheep, fourteen coil-carts, thurty mules, twenty-five geese, an three pigs."

Etymology

From corf (“basket”) (which is a homophone of cauf in some dialects).

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /kɔːf/

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.

Inflected Forms

cauves (plural)

Rhymes With

cough orf toff swarf rolloff rouf orfe gawf

Questions

How do you pronounce cauf?: The recorded pronunciation is /kɔːf/.
What does cauf mean?: A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.
Where does cauf come from?: From corf (“basket”) (which is a homophone of cauf in some dialects).

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