chafed, ppl. a.
(tʃeɪft)
Also chauf(f)ed, chauft, chaf'd, chaft, etc.
[f. chafe v. + -ed1.]
Heated; rubbed, fretted; angered, irritated, vexed.
| c 1330 Arth. & Merl. 7145 Vp he lepe with chaufed blod. 1583 Stanyhurst æneis i. (1880) 20 On coast thee chauft flud is hurled. 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. iii. 33 When his [the horse's] hot rider spurd his chauffed side. 1593 Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, ii. v. 126 Warwicke rages like a chafed Bull. 1642 H. More Song of Soul i. i. li, His chafed feet, and the long way to town. 1764 Churchill The Author Wks. 1774 II. 180 The chaf'd blood flies mounting to his cheeks. 1791 Cowper Iliad iii. 265 Some chafed and angry idiot. 1816 Shelley Alastor 322 The white ridges of the chafèd sea. |