different between naff vs caff

English

Etymology

Perhaps from Polari, 1960s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /næf/
• Rhymes: -æf

Adjective

naff (comparative naffer, superlative naffest)

1. (Britain, colloquial, Polari) Bad; tasteless, poorly thought out, not workable.
2. (Polari) Heterosexual.

Derived terms

• naff all
• naff off

Translations

Further reading

• “naff”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “naff”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• naff at OneLook Dictionary Search

References

Anagrams

• FNAF, FNaF

Middle English

Noun

naff

1. (Northern) Alternative form of nave

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