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In British informal English, a caff is a café — typically the unpretentious kind: cheap breakfasts, mugs of tea, wipe-clean tables, not a fancy coffee bar. It has a working, everyday flavour, a little old-fashioned in a fond way; some younger speakers still use it, others hear it as their parents’ word. Americans do not say this. Though actually the dictionary line just says “a café,” real use leans toward the greasy-spoon or works-canteen end, not a quiet specialty shop. It is a , not a separate kind of place with its own rules.
小餐館、平民咖啡店(英式口語,偏早餐小館,不是精品咖啡店)
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
caffnoun/kæf/
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slangSynonym of café.
- 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.
- 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.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。