caf

• enPR: kăf, IPA^(key): /kæf/
• Rhymes: -æf

Abbreviation of café.

caf (plural cafs)

1. (colloquial) 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.

Abbreviation of cafeteria.

caf (plural cafs)

1. (colloquial) 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.

• ACF, AFC, CFA, FAC, FCA, fac

caf

1. Alternative form of chaf

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːf/

cāf

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

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

• IPA^(key): /tʃaf/

caf (plural cafs)

1. kettle

• ca (colloquial)

• (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/

caf

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