Caff vs Cauf - What's the difference?
caff | cauf |
A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.
* 1926 : Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses, Reports , volume 2,
''Cauf , a little trunk or chest with holes in it, wherein Fishermen keep Fish alive in the water, ready for use. * “
* 1845 : Charles Rogers, Tom Treddlehoyle’s Thowts, Joakes, an Smiles for Midsummer Day ,
CAUF, CAUVES. — Common pronunciation of Calf, Calves: as “I’d been to serve the cauves;” “She’s gotten a quee cauf[.” English terms with multiple etymologies ----
As nouns the difference between caff and cauf
is that caff is (british|slang) while cauf is a chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water or cauf can be .cauf
English
Etymology 1
Originally a misspelling of , of which (term) remains a homophone. (rfimage)Noun
(cauves)unknown page(Executive Committee)
- The live fish is now kept in the cauves until sold for consumption in the home-country or abroad.
References
* Glossographia; or, A Dictionary Interpreting the Hard Words of Whatsoever Language, Now Used in Our Refined English Tongue'', by (1662?; in 1670 Ed.)''Cauf , a little trunk or chest with holes in it, wherein Fishermen keep Fish alive in the water, ready for use. * “
†cauf]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989
Etymology 2
Phonetic respelling.Noun
(cauves)pages 40–41
- An estimate at traffick hez been made be sum foaks, at wor set ta tack noatis, an it appear’d, bit average a wun month, thear wor enter’d Pogmoor an Hickam, fifteen wheelbarras, nine turnap rowlers, eighteen cauves , six sither grinders, wun wattar barril, nine haulin-horses, two pol’d cahs, three pair a cuts, wun hearse, sixteen dogs, three sheep, fourteen coil-carts, thurty mules, twenty-five geese, an three pigs.
References
* Publications of the English Dialect Society, volume 52 (1886),page 26]
CAUF, CAUVES. — Common pronunciation of Calf, Calves: as “I’d been to serve the cauves;” “She’s gotten a quee cauf[.” English terms with multiple etymologies ----