noun
General Slang
keffel
· noun · welsh
An old, knackered horse — a nag, from the Welsh for horse.
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An old, worn-out or worthless horse — a nag. From Welsh 'ceffyl' (horse), but in English it picked up a sneer: the second-rate, knackered, sorry-looking kind. Once common in 19th-century underworld slang for a dodgy mount; now largely obsolete, but still rattles around in horse country and historical fiction.
“He bought some old keffel at the market and called it a racehorse.”
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keffel In A Sentence
He bought some old keffel at the market and called it a racehorse.
Origin & Usage
From Welsh 'ceffyl' (horse), ultimately from Latin 'caballus'.
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