Kaff — meaning in English
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English meaning
- backwater noun A place seen as remote, quiet, and untouched by modern trends or major events.
- chaff noun The dry, papery husks separated from grain during threshing.
- hamlet noun A very small settlement, smaller than a village, often just a cluster of houses without its own church or local government.
Senses
Kaff is used for these senses in English:
- backwater (idiomatic, usually, figurative) A remote place: somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc; any field of endeavor that figuratively resembles such a place.
- chaff The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
- cowtown (slang) A small town, a hick or backwards town.
- hamlet A small village or a group of houses.
backwater — full definition
- noun A place seen as remote, quiet, and untouched by modern trends or major events.
- noun Still water held back or diverted by a dam, obstruction, or the current of a larger river.
chaff — full definition
- noun The dry, papery husks separated from grain during threshing.
- noun Something considered worthless or unwanted, especially compared with something valuable ("separating the wheat from the chaff").
- verb To tease or make good-natured fun of someone.