Meanings
- uncountableHigh spirits, ebullience, chiefly in Greece or among Greek people.
‘You have too many high spirits, altogether too much kefi, to be a good husband.’
1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 552 more examples
Music was a context in which men and women, regardless of their political orientation, could express emotions, especially of grief and kefi, in modern Greece.
2015, Nikolaos Papadogiannis, Militant Around the Clock?, Berghahn, published 2019, page 111Kefi is achieved methodically and systematically through drink, increasingly intimate subject matter in the songs sung, escalating expressions of feelings, and private relationships among the guests.
2019, Tina Bucuvelas, editor, Greek Music in America
Origin
- Greekκέφι
- Englishkefi
Borrowed from Greek κέφι (kéfi).
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kefi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kefi
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