caffとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /kæf/
• 韻: -æf

名詞

caff (複数形 caffs)

1. (Britain, Ireland, slang) café, cafeteria.

   Synonyms: caf; see also Thesaurus:restaurant

   • 1912, Stephen Leacock, “The Hostelry of Mr. Smith”, in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, page 27:

     No one in Mariposa had ever seen anything like the caff. All down the side of it were the grill fires, with great pewter dish covers that went up and down on a chain, […] ; you could watch a buckwheat pancake whirled into existence under your eyes and see fowls' legs devilled, peppered, grilled, and tormented till they lost all semblance of the original Mariposa chicken.

   • 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.

   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 200:

     McCormack dressed in his second-best suit and walked down the hill to a caff on Dumbarton Road.