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.

Anagrams

• kief, Fike, fike, Efik, Kief, kife