chafe
See also: chafé
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English chaufen (“to warm”), borrowed from Old French chaufer (modern French chauffer), from Latin calefacere, calfacere (“to make warm”), from calere (“to be warm”) + facere (“to make”). See caldron.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]chafe (uncountable)
- Heat excited by friction.
- Injury or wear caused by friction.
- Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Like a wylde Bull, that, being at a bay, / Is bayted of a mastiffe and a hound / […] That in his chauffe he digs the trampled ground / And threats his horns […]
- (archaic) An expression of opinionated conflict.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:argument
- 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin, The Adventures Of A Revolutionary Soldier:
- When we returned we found the poor prisoner in a terrible chafe with the sentinel for detaining him, for the guard had been true to his trust.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]heat excited by friction
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injury or wear caused by friction
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vexation; irritation of mind; rage
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Verb
[edit]chafe (third-person singular simple present chafes, present participle chafing, simple past and past participle chafed)
- (transitive) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
- (transitive) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
- (transitive) To fret and wear by rubbing.
- to chafe a cable
- (intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
- 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- the troubled Tiber chafing with her shores
- 1855 November 10, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Peace-pipe”, in The Song of Hiawatha, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 12:
- [Gitche Manito] Breathed upon the neighbouring forest, / Made its great boughs chafe together, / Till in flame they burst and kindled; […]
- (intransitive) To be worn by rubbing.
- A cable chafes.
- (intransitive) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
- He will chafe at the doctor's marrying my daughter.
- 1996, Jim Schiller, Developing Jepara in New Order Indonesia, page 58:
- Many local politicians chafed under the restrictions of Guided Democracy […]
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to excite passion or anger in
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to fret and wear by rubbing
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to rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction
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to be worn by rubbing
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to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated
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References
[edit]- “chafe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
friction burn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Middle English
[edit]Verb
[edit]chafe
- Alternative form of chaufen
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]chafe
- inflection of chafar:
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