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caff
English
Etymology
Clipping of cafeteria.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kæf/
- Rhymes: -æf
Noun
caff (plural caffs)
- (Britain, slang) café, cafeteria.
- Synonyms: caf; see also Thesaurus:restaurant
- 2012, Suzanne Hall, City, Street and Citizen, Routledge (?ISBN), page 52:
- After working his way up in restaurant kitchens, Nick's father bought a caff off the Walworth Road, and named it The Bosphorus in homage to a cultural homeland elsewhere.
Middle English
Noun
caff
- Alternative form of chaf
Scots
Etymology 1
From Middle English calf (“young cow”).
Noun
caff
- Alternative form of cauf (“calf (young cow)”)
Etymology 2
From Middle English caf, caff, kaf, kaff, alternative forms of chaf.
Alternative forms
- cauf, cawf, calf, cauff, kaff
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaf/, /k??f/
Noun
caff (uncountable)
- Chaff; the parts of harvested grain not usable as food, especially straw or husks.
References
- “caff, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, OCLC 57069714, retrieved 15 February 2019, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, ?OCLC
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baff
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bæf/
- Rhymes: -æf
Etymology 1
From Middle English baffen (“to bark”). Cognate with Dutch baffen (“to bark”), Low German baffen (“to bark”), German baffen, bäfzen (“to bark”), Danish bjæffe (“to yelp”), Swedish bjäbba (“to yelp, bark”). Compare buff, yaff.
Verb
baff (third-person singular simple present baffs, present participle baffing, simple past and past participle baffed)
- (intransitive, archaic) To bark; yelp.
Etymology 2
Probably from Scots baff, beff, bauf, probably from West Flemish baf, baffe (“a blow, slap in the face”). Compare also Old French baffe (“slap in the face”) (Modern French baffe), of imitative origin.
Verb
baff (third-person singular simple present baffs, present participle baffing, simple past and past participle baffed)
- To hit or strike, especially with something flat or soft.
- (golf) To strike the ground with the bottom of the club when taking a stroke.
Derived terms
- baffed out
Etymology 3
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
baff (uncountable)
- (Tyneside) blank (Can we add an example for this sense?)
References
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
- Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
German
Etymology
Onomatopoeic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baf/
Adjective
baff (not comparable)
- (colloquial, chiefly predicative) flabbergasted
Declension
Further reading
- “baff” in Duden online
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