kief

American  

[keef, kef, keyf] / kif, kɛf, keɪf /

keef, or kif or kef

noun

1. Usually kief

   1. a powdery, crystallized substance extracted from the resin glands on the flower buds of the cannabis plant: more potent than marijuana due to a high concentration of cannabinoids and terpenes.

   2. a popular name for marijuana.

2. Usually kef a state of drowsy contentment or trancelike calm, especially from the use of marijuana, opium, or another narcotic.

   In our peace-themed rooms scented with patchouli and the smoke of homegrown weed, we felt the kef and thought we were saving the world.

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kief British  

/ kiːf /

noun

1. a variant spelling of kif

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Example Sentences

Another—albeit slightly more involved—method for making kief calls for dry ice.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2023

Already the sun's hot rays poured down soothingly, and everybody was in that state of quiet contentment known as "kief" in the East.

From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Jebb, Louisa

This period of daily repose, called kief, is a necessity for Egyptians.

From Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

From bath like this comes no unmanly kief, no sensuous, slumberous, dreamy indifference, but a nervous, intent, keen, joyous activity.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various

It is such a kief that one enjoys under the palm-trees, with such a scene. 

From Letters from Egypt by Ross, Janet