caf

English

Alternative forms

• (café, cafeteria): caff

Etymology

Clippings.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kăf, IPA^(key): /kæf/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æf

Noun

caf (countable and uncountable, plural cafs)

1. (countable, informal) A café.
   • 2008, Carlos Frías, Take Me with You: A Memoir:

     Fourth on the list of the businesses my father and his brothers had owned was a caf on the corner of San Ignacio and Lamparilla in Old Havana.

2. (countable, informal) A cafeteria.
   • 2005, Amy Davis, Adam Burns, Michigan State University, page 49:

     There are plenty of restaurants to choose from when you're sick of the ol’ caf food.

   • 2009, Lili St. Crow, Betrayals:

     Locked, empty classrooms on either side, other halls opening up to go down to the caf, two janitors' closets. Janitors' closets. Great. One was locked.

   • 2010, Cheryl Denise Bannerman, Black Child to Black Woman: A Journey of Tremendous Proportions, page 38:

     One thing they shun is eating in the caf. alone. If you were not with a clique, you are strange. Why? I don't know. I heard the meat is processed and all the food is made by mixing powder with a measured amount of water.

3. (countable, uncountable) A caffeinated coffee.

   Coordinate term: decaf

   • 2007, Karen Gurwitz, Jen Hoy, The Well-Rounded Pregnancy Cookbook: Give Your Baby a Healthy Start with 100 Recipes That Adapt to Fit How You Feel, New York, NY: Crown Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 31:

     If you decide to cut coffee out completely, consider going down half a cup a day, week by week, if your withdrawal symptoms—headaches and irritability—are severe. Or, mix decaf with caf, increasing the quantity of decaf until you are down to all decaf.

Related terms

• (caffeinated coffee): decaf, half-caf

Translations

Anagrams

• ACF, AFC, CFA, FAC, FCA, fac

Middle English

Noun

caf

1. Alternative form of chaf

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kaibaz (“strong, lively, brave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑːf/

Adjective

cāf

1. quick, sharp, prompt, nimble, swift
2. bold, brave

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: kafe, cave, cof, cove
  • Scots: caif, kaif

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃaf/

Noun

caf (nominative plural cafs)

1. kettle

Declension

Welsh

Alternative forms

• ca (colloquial)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) (standard) IPA^(key): /kaːv/
  • (North Wales) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /kaː/
• (South Wales) (standard) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /kaːv/
  • (South Wales) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /kaː/
• Rhymes: -aːv

Verb

caf

1. (literary) first-person singular present indicative/future of cael

Mutation