Flaming vs Chafed - What's the difference?
flaming | chafed |
On fire with visible flames.
(colloquial) Extremely obvious; visibly evident. Typically of a homosexual male.
(British, colloquial) Damned, bloody.
sterilization by holding an object in a hot flame
(internet slang) vitriolic criticism
(chafe)
Heat excited by friction.
Injury or wear caused by friction.
Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.5:
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
* Longfellow
To be worn by rubbing.
To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
* Shakespeare
* 1996 , Jim Schiller , Developing Jepara in New Order Indonesia , page 58:
As verbs the difference between flaming and chafed
is that flaming is while chafed is (chafe).As an adjective flaming
is on fire with visible flames.As a noun flaming
is sterilization by holding an object in a hot flame.flaming
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The flaming debris kept the firefighter well back, and the sparks threatened the neighborhood.
- To call him a flaming homosexual would be an understatement, but I think he acts that way just to see people react.
- I wasted three hours in that flaming traffic jam!
Verb
(head)See also
* flame war * flame baitNoun
(en noun)- You can expect a flaming if you post irrelevant spam to a newsgroup.
chafed
English
Verb
(head)chafe
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Noun
(-)- 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)- the troubled Tiber chafing with her shores
- made its great boughs chafe together
- A cable chafes .
- He will chafe at the doctor's marrying my daughter.
- Many local politicians chafed under the restrictions of Guided Democracy