ecaf

noun

ecaf

noun

UK /ˈiː.keɪf/ · US /ˈi.keɪf/

Etymology Backwards spelling of face.

1

Polari A person's face.

  • He was very camp, and used all that weird gay backslang of the fifties[.] ‘Clock the ecaf, dear!’ they would say (look at the face).1990, Jean Shrimpton, Jean Shrimpton:
  • If you had too much slap on when you went out . . . your mates say too much slap on your ecaf. Yeah. Oh really girl? Yes . . . Go in the lavs here and have a look.1991, K. Porter; J. Weeks, Between the Acts: Lives of Homosexual Men 1885–1967, said by Alex
1 more example
  • I better not see you on my street / If I do, you gone see plenty heat / And let them bullets come straight at your ecaf / At your emod, cause you was a disgracе.2022, Viper, producer Maddsnake, "Honor Amongst Thieves", in Pussy Boy Ill Kill Ya (All I Need Is Tha Money)
Related terms
eek, riah

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