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Yes. The word cauf is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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4-letter words (1 found)

CAUF,

3-letter words (2 found)

AUF,CAF,

2-letter words (2 found)

FA,FU,

You can make 5 words from cauf according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of cauf

cauf

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From corf (basket) (which is a homophone of cauf in some dialects).

Noun

cauf (plural cauves)

  1. 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)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of calf.
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(key): /kɑːf/

Noun

cauf (plural caur)

  1. 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(key): /kɑːf/, /kɑːv/

Noun

cauf (plural cauves)

  1. (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

  1. alternative form of caff

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