different between caff vs laff

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

Noun

laff (plural laffs)

1. (chiefly humorous) Alternative spelling of laugh

Verb

laff (third-person singular simple present laffs, present participle laffing, simple past and past participle laffed)

1. (chiefly humorous) Alternative spelling of laugh

German

Etymology

From German Low German [Term?], in which it is either inherited from Middle Low German [Term?] (seemingly not attested), or borrowed from Middle Dutch laf (early 15th century). Compare modern Dutch laf (“cowardly”). Cognate with German labberig (“slack; not crisp”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laf/

Adjective

laff (comparative laffer, superlative am laffsten)

1. (regional, chiefly northern and central Germany) lethargic; weak; slack
2. (regional, chiefly northern and central Germany) tasteless

Declension

Synonyms

• (lethargic): schlapp
• (tasteless): fad

Related terms

• labberig
• labern