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chaffed

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English

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Adjective

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chaffed

  1. Finely chopped into chaff.
    • 1888, Thomas Jennings, “Practical Experiences in the Preparation of Food for Stock”, in Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, page 440:
      Chaffed food, or "lick," as it is termed here, causes both milk and butter to be sweeter and of better quality, and free from taste of turnips.
    • 1907, Robert Wallace, Farm Live Stock of Great Britain, page 504:
      Straw (usually oat-, but at times wheat- or bean-straw) is often given during winter, and hay in spring when hard work begins; but the best results are obtained by using a chaffed mixture of hay and straw throughout the winter season.
    • 1914, The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of South Australia, page 688:
      A visitor mentioned that if horses had to be placed on a chaffed straw diet, a small quantity of pollard would prevent scouring.

Derived terms

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Verb

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chaffed

  1. simple past and past participle of chaff

Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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chaffed

  1. Aspirate mutation of caffed.

Mutation

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Mutated forms of caffed
radical soft nasal aspirate
caffed gaffed nghaffed chaffed

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.