Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Scotch form of
chaff .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun British slang a cafe.
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- noun UK, slang
café .
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- noun informal British term for a cafe
Etymologies
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Examples
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Combine the two and cook for a bit, and you get what they call a caffèlatte.
Ask MetaFilter 2009
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But the greatest thing about the caff were the prices.
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Stephen Leacock 1906
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The caff was a mere babel of voices, and even the Rats 'Cooler was almost floated away from its moorings.
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Stephen Leacock 1906
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You'll also pay less than you would in Manhattan for treats such as caff latte and lemon poundcake.
Price-Point Politics 2010
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And in a thousand years, even if they aren't walking around with cell phones, yoga pants, half-caff lattes, hair plugs, democracy, or SUVs, people will probably be distinctly human.
Thoughts on TSHTF wendigomountain 2010
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You too could order a venti half-caff skim lager merlot.
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CGI is like a quad, venti, half-caff, one pump sugar-free vanilla, two pumps sugar-free hazelnut, extra-hot, ristretto latte, with half soy, half lowfat organic milk, with two paper cups from Starbucks.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Tom and Jerry CGI project = Gonna suck 2009
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You too could order a venti half-caff skim lager merlot.
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David HartThe Vows Moment Wobbles the SonnetI've walked the valley path in sticky rainto see the person I met in a caff by luck lost to the world out on a cloddy trackfull of ache, done-for-almost, in foul pain –Enough, I love you.
Poems for a wedding 2011
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You reach it from Camden Road up a slanting lane opposite the excellent Coffee@Camden caff, the verge afoam with cow parsley in late spring.
yarb commented on the word caff
A caff is a dilapidated British eatery serving English breakfasts, tea and coffee, and sandwiches and maybe a few other unwholesome things for lunch. It is quite distinct from a cafe, in that in the former all the chairs will be of normal height - no stools - and all the colours will be matt. All the tables are wipe-clean, all the condiment-bottles are sticky and all the staff are stuck, gesturing impotently, and so are you.
January 28, 2012