different between caf vs oaf

English

Etymology

Clippings.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?f, IPA^(key): /kæf/
• Rhymes: -æf

Noun

caf (plural cafs)

1. (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. (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.
3. A caffeinated coffee.

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): /k??f/

Adjective

c?f

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

Declension

Descendants

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

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?af/

Noun

caf (nominative plural cafs)

1. kettle

Declension

Welsh

Alternative forms

• ca (colloquial)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) (standard) IPA^(key): /ka?v/
  • (North Wales) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ka?/
• (South Wales) (standard) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ka?v/
  • (South Wales) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ka?/

Verb

caf

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

Mutation

English

Alternative forms

• auf

Etymology

From auf, Old Norse álfr (“elf”) (whence Norwegian Bokmål alv). Doublet of elf.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??f/
• (US) IPA^(key): /o?f/
• Rhymes: -??f

Noun

oaf (plural oafs or oaves)

1. (derogatory) A person, especially a large male, who is clumsy or a simpleton.

   Ouch! You dropped that box on my feet, you lumbering oaf!

2. (obsolete) An elf's child; a changeling left by fairies or goblins, hence, a deformed or foolish child.

Synonyms

• (clumsy or idiotic person): dummy, galoot, imbecile, lout, moron, fool

Derived terms

• oafish

Translations

References

Further reading

• oaf at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• FAO, Foa, OFA, fao, of a