# cauf
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôf, IPA: /kɔːf/
* Rhymes: -ɔːf

### Etymology 1

From corf (“basket”) (which is a homophone of cauf in some dialects).
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#### Noun

cauf (plural cauves)
* A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.
** 1926: Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses, Reports, volume 2, 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 Thomas Blount (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 Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]

### Etymology 2

Phonetic respelling.

#### Noun

cauf (plural cauves)
* Pronunciation spelling of calf.
** 1845, Charles Rogers, Tom Treddlehoyle’s Thowts, Joakes, an Smiles for Midsummer Day, 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[.]”

## Scots
### Etymology 1

From Middle English calf (“young cow”), from Old English cealf, from Proto-Germanic *kalbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷolbʰo (“womb, animal young”).

#### Alternative forms

* cawf, caff, calf

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɑːf/

#### Noun

cauf (plural caur)
* calf (young cow)

##### References

* “cauf, ca'f, caav, cauve , n.$^1$ and v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 15 February 2019, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

### Etymology 2

From Middle English calf (“area behind the shin”), from Old Norse kalfi.

#### Alternative forms

* cauve, cawve

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɑːf/, /kɑːv/

#### Noun

cauf (plural cauves)
* (rare) calf (area behind the shin)

##### References

* “cauf, cauve, cawve, n.$^2$”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 15 February 2019, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

### Etymology 3

From Middle English caf, caff, kaf, kaff, alternative forms of chaf.

#### Noun

cauf
* Alternative form of caff