# chafe
## English
### Etymology

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

* (US) IPA: /t͡ʃeɪf/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪf

### Noun

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

* chafen

#### Translations
### Verb

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

* antichafe
* chafage
* chafe at the bit
* chafer
* chafesome
* chafeweed
* chafing dish
* chafing gear

#### Translations
### References

* “chafe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* friction burn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Middle English
### Verb

chafe
* Alternative form of chaufen

## Spanish
### Verb

chafe
* inflection of chafar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative