kefi

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek κέφι (kéfi).

Noun

kefi (uncountable)

  1. High spirits, ebullience, chiefly in Greece or among Greek people.
    • 1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 55:
      ‘You have too many high spirits, altogether too much kefi, to be a good husband.’
    • 2015, Nikolaos Papadogiannis, Militant Around the Clock?, Berghahn, published 2019, page 111:
      Music was a context in which men and women, regardless of their political orientation, could express emotions, especially of grief and kefi, in modern Greece.
    • 2019, Tina Bucuvelas, editor, Greek Music in America:
      Kefi is achieved methodically and systematically through drink, increasingly intimate subject matter in the songs sung, escalating expressions of feelings, and private relationships among the guests.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.