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kayf en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /keɪf/

Etymology

Humorous respelling of an uneducated pronunciation of cafe.

Meanings

1. (UK, slang) A café.
   • 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. 2025, Michael Butterworth, Flowers for a Dead Witch:
   • 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 […] 1969, Frank Norman, Norman's London, page 28:

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