Grizzle vs Chafe - What's the difference?
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Of a grey colour.
To make or become grey.
(UK, slang) To whinge or whine.
* 1888 , , ''The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan ,
* 1976 , , Parliamentary Debates ,
* 2009 , , Game Girls ,
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 nouns the difference between grizzle and chafe
is that grizzle is a dark grey colour while chafe is heat excited by friction.As verbs the difference between grizzle and chafe
is that grizzle is to make or become grey while chafe is to excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.As an adjective grizzle
is of a grey colour.grizzle
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) grisel, from grisAdjective
Verb
(grizzl)Etymology 2
From English West Country dialect.2010 , Alex Games, Balderdash & Piffle: English Words and Their Curious Origins ,page 135.
Verb
(grizzl)page 510,
- [Wilfred:] In tears, eh? What a plague art thou grizzling for now?
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- R. J. Tizard' — What are you ' grizzling about now?
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- The pin-thin girl is grizzling , whining that she has sand in her eyes.
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chafe
English
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