Chafe (verb)
chay-f
(with reference to a part of the body) make or become sore by rubbing against something.
Late Middle English (in the sense ‘make warm’): from Old French chaufer ‘make hot’, based on Latin calefacere, from calere ‘be hot’ + facere ‘make’.
Example sentences
“The leggings chafe on my thighs.”
Favonian (adj) fav-oh-nee-un Of or relating to the west wind./ Mild or favorable; propitious. 1650–60; Latin Favōniānus. See Favonius, -an. foehn (more…)
