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