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Chafed vs Chuffed - What's the difference?

chafed | chuffed |

As verbs the difference between chafed and chuffed

is that chafed is past tense of chafe while chuffed is past tense of chuff.

As an adjective chuffed is

very pleased or satisfied.

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") ----

    chuffed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (chuff)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (British, informal) Very pleased or satisfied.

    • Antonyms

    * dischuffed

    References

    External links

    * “ chuffed]” at [http://septicscompanion.com The Septic's Companion: A British Slang Dictionary