caff

Clipping of cafeteria

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kæf/
• Rhymes: -æf

caff (plural caffs)

1. (Britain, slang) café, cafeteria.

caff

1. Alternative form of chaf

From Middle English calf (“young cow”).

caff

1. Alternative form of cauf (“calf (young cow)”)

From Middle English caf, caff, kaf, kaff, alternative forms of chaf, from Old English ċeaf, *cæf, from Proto-Germanic *kafą.

• cauf, cawf, calf, cauff, kaff

• IPA^(key): /kaf/, /kɑːf/

caff (uncountable)

1. Chaff; the parts of harvested grain not usable as food, especially straw or husks.

• “caff, n.” in W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, OCLC 847228655; reproduced on The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, OCLC 57069714, retrieved 15 February 2019.