different between caff vs chophouse

English

Etymology

Clipping of cafeteria.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kæf/
• Rhymes: -æf

Noun

caff (plural caffs)

1. (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

1. Alternative form of chaf

Scots

Etymology 1

From Middle English calf (“young cow”).

Noun

caff

1. 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)

1. 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

English

Alternative forms

• chop house

Etymology

chop +? house. For Chinese customs sense, see chop (“quality”).

Noun

chophouse (plural chophouses)

1. (now chiefly historical) An inexpensive restaurant that specializes in chops or steaks; a steakhouse.
   • 1763, James Boswell, in Gordon Turnbull (ed.), London Journal 1762–1763, Penguin 2014, p. 231:

     Temple & his Brother & I dined in their chambers where we had dinner brought thinking it a more genteel & agreable way than in a Chophouse.

2. (Nigeria) Any restaurant.
3. A custom house in China where transit duties are levied.
   • 1883, Samuel Wells Williams, The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Geography, Government, Education, Social Life, Arts, Religion, &c., of the Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants

     the South Chop-house on the southern shore of the river bears S.S.W.