kayf

K5A1Y4F4
/keɪf/

noun

A café.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounkayf (plural kayfs)

plural kayfs

  1. UKslangA café.

    The number 86 is a kayf up West where all the slag in Town hang out. It is owned by a fat Greek called Gregorious who has a wife who is as skinny as a rake […]

    1969, Frank Norman, Norman's London, page 28
    1 more example

    But there was a kayf next door, he said. The cafe was self-service. Tea and coffee were dispensed from twin urns by an elderly woman in a beehive hair-do with pearl stud ear-rings.

    2025, Michael Butterworth, Flowers for a Dead Witch

Origin

Humorous respelling of an uneducated pronunciation of cafe.

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Cite this entry
APA

kayf. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kayf

MLA

“kayf.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kayf. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “kayf,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kayf.

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