Dictionary

ecaf en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈiː.keɪf/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈi.keɪf/ (General-American)

Etymology

Backwards spelling of face.

Meanings

1. (Polari, qualifier:back slang) A person's face.
   • I better not see you on my street / If I do, you gone see plenty heat / And let them bullets come straight at your ecaf / At your emod, cause you was a disgracе. 2022, Viper, producer Maddsnake, "Honor Amongst Thieves", in Pussy Boy Ill Kill Ya (All I Need Is Tha Money)
   • He was very camp, and used all that weird gay backslang of the fifties[.] ‘Clock the ecaf, dear!’ they would say (look at the face). 1990, Jean Shrimpton, Jean Shrimpton:
   • If you had too much slap on when you went out . . . your mates say too much slap on your ecaf. Yeah. Oh really girl? Yes . . . Go in the lavs here and have a look. 1991, K. Porter; J. Weeks, Between the Acts: Lives of Homosexual Men 1885–1967, said by Alex

Forms

Relateds

riah · eek

Synonyms

eek