kayf

/keɪf/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

British usage; Slang

"The number 86 is a kayf up West where all the slag in Town hang out. It is owned by a fat Greek called Gregorious who has a wife who is as skinny as a rake […]"
"But there was a kayf next door, he said. The cafe was self-service. Tea and coffee were dispensed from twin urns by an elderly woman in a beehive hair-do with pearl stud ear-rings."

Humorous respelling of an uneducated pronunciation of cafe.

kayfs (plural)

safe night safe ralph unsafe rafe tafe chafe waif strafe kef vouchsafe treyf

Questions

How do you pronounce kayf?

The recorded pronunciation is /keɪf/.

What does kayf mean?

A café.

Where does kayf come from?

Humorous respelling of an uneducated pronunciation of cafe.

How to pronounce kayf

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