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Chafe vs Chate - What's the difference?

chafe | chate |

As nouns the difference between chafe and chate

is that chafe is heat excited by friction while chate is cheat.

As verbs the difference between chafe and chate

is that chafe is to excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm while chate is to cheat.

chafe

English

Noun

(-)
  • Heat excited by friction.
  • Injury or wear caused by friction.
  • Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.5:
    • 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 […].

    Verb

    (chaf)
  • To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
  • To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
  • To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable.
  • To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the troubled Tiber chafing with her shores
  • * Longfellow
    • made its great boughs chafe together
  • To be worn by rubbing.
    • A cable chafes .
  • To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
  • * Shakespeare
    • 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

    References

    * * (wikipedia "chafe") ----

    chate

    English

    Verb

    (chat)
  • (Scotland) To cheat.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1899, author=Horatio Alger, Jr., title=Paul the Peddler, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="You want to chate me!" said Teddy, angrily.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1875, author=Horatio Alger, title=The Young Outlaw, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I'm up to your tricks, you young spalpeen, thryin' to chate a poor widder out of her money."}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1866, author=Oliver Optic, title=Hope and Have, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="But ye better beg than chate me out of me honest dues.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1873, author=Various, title=The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But they'll murdher my boy when they find out the chate ," said Mrs. Rooney. "}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) Cheat.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1885, author=Grace Greenwood, title=Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=With that, he began to swear and call me a chate , and threaten me with the police.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=, author=Mayne Reid, title=The Ocean Waifs, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=That there's been chatin' yez are all agreed; only yez can't identify the chate .}} ----