Examples
“Chai honaa bole to 'kef' that's what people say in Hyderabad for cafe ka Irani chai.”
“Another familiar example is the tiny, lovely, cursive 'kef' which is the same whether it is put on a girl in Cos, or Ar, or Ko-ro-ba, or Thentis or Turia.”
“There is this wonderful Bulgarian word "kef" ( "кеф" - pleasure, ease).”
“When you look at Germans, for example, they don't have a world for "kef", and they don't understand the concept because what a German does when he is not working - he is doing something else.”
“Incidentally, shortly after the entry kef in the OED comes kehaya 'a Turkish viceroy, deputy, agent, etc; a local governor; a village chief.”
“A mixture of human and kef sidhe sounds plausible, considering their descriptions.”
“The Par-kef men could easily take it into their heads to catch up to the Hammonds and vent their displeasure.”
“She was extremely ill from chronic malaria; she also had syphilis, no teeth, and an addiction to kef and arrak.”
“He remembered the odor of those rooms, a sultry mixture of cinnamon and spices, kef and coffee, warm black hair and female musk, the scent of rose and jasmine, mingling with the fragrance of vanilla that wafted in from the tubs of white oleanders that stood on the turquoise-patterned tiles of the central courtyard.”
“These folks take their _kef_, as they do every thing else, quietly.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kef’.
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nouns
enfleurage, fautor, mafia, haslet, chopine, sea-gate, cantillation, formicary, go-devil, Gongorism, mamzer, mazarine and 147 more...
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phrontistery - k
from phrontistery.info
kyrielle, kyrie, kyphosis, kyriolexy, kymograph, kyloe, kyllosis, kylin, kvass, kurtosis, kyphorrhinos, ktenology and 189 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Altered States Research Lab
Words and terms about (illicit) drugs and related subcultures.
reefer, golden brown, ganja, embalming fluid, shrooms, angel dust, bong, mescaline, handcuffs, padded cell, spliff, ecstasy and 79 more...
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Appellations
States of ment.
off kilter, fervent, nonchalant, exuberant, turbid, verbose, eloquent, vicarious, gallivant, orotund, amalgamate, accentuate and 285 more...
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New words
Words that are new to me.
autostrada, gimlet, clyster, gravida, skelped, nacreous, susurrus, intransigent, puissant, turbid, plangent, fungible and 99 more...
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Wordnik Words
Words that appear on the home page of Wordnik.
abaci, cabooleat, endomorphic, warfinger, varna, tautological, quesadillia, hub, oceanography, ken, ignimbrite, galactagogue and 110 more...
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Bedaphors
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sleepyhypnagogic, chronotherapy, clinomania, condorm, librocubicularist, matutolypea, soporific, supine, decubitus, pandiculation, oscitancy, slugabed and 169 more...
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Uncle John’s Interesting Words
Words I find interesting.
abecedarius, acomoclitic, aperçu, apophenia, aspic, bêtise, bhang, callipygian, calque, carking, cataphract, ceruminous and 97 more...
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Word Gems
foist, coercion, abecedism, abiectic, abigeus, abiogenesis, ablaut, thunderstruck, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, filagree, blotto and 196 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Really Cool Three-Letter Words
None of your "the" and "get" here. No, no. This is the place for auk and sty, and words of that ilk.
One might think that being limited to only three letters would prevent many words fro...auk, sty, ilk, ani, owl, zit, ink, eau, rum, pus, pwe, pyx and 105 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
Tweets
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aurpera A state of drowsiness or dreamy intoxication; the enjoyment of idleness
“To him the greatest enjoyment is his ‘kef,’ or perfect idleness, and he will do nothing to-day which can possibly be put off till to-morrow.”
—George Keith, Plea for a Simpler Faith
Via wordjournal.tumblr.com May 11, 2011
klmn613 In addition to being a Bulgarian word,"kef" is also a term in modern Hebrew, having the same meaning, but more emphatic: "with pleasure"! Jul 25, 2010
mialuthien kef – a state of dreamy tranquility; a smoking material that produces such a state (WWFTD) Jul 27, 2008
skybits n. - sleepiness, caused by drugs; hashish, etc.
due to selective insomnia, this is the only way I get sleep recently. Oct 19, 2007