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Chafed vs Chawed - What's the difference?

chafed | chawed |

As verbs the difference between chafed and chawed

is that chafed is past tense of chafe while chawed is past tense of chaw, i.e. nonstandard variant of chewed.

chafed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (chafe)

    • 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") ----

    chawed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (chaw), i.e. nonstandard variant of chewed.

    • chaw

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
    • When the doctor told him to quit smoking, Harvey switched to chaw , but then developed cancer of the mouth.
  • (countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco.
    • My uncle's way to convince us not to use tobacco was to give us each a big chaw , and then get us to swallow it.
  • * 1889 , , Chapter XXI,
    • "YOU give him a chaw', did you? So did your sister's cat's grandmother. You pay me back the ' chaws you've awready borry'd off'n me, Lafe Buckner, then I'll loan you one or two ton of it, and won't charge you no back intrust, nuther."
  • (obsolete) The jaw.
    • (Spenser)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic, or, nonstandard) To chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud); to champ (at the bit).
    • (Spenser)
  • * Surrey
    • The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped, / Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood.
  • * 1884 , , Chapter XXIX,
  • To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.
    • (Dryden)
  • (UK, slang) To steal.
    • Some pikey's chawed my bike.
    Appalachian English