kayf
noun/keɪf/
Etymology Humorous respelling of an uneducated pronunciation of cafe.
- 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 28:
- 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: