Chafed

ppl. a. Also chauf(f)ed, chauft, chaf’d, chaft, etc. [f. CHAFE v. + -ED¹.] Heated; rubbed, fretted; angered, irritated, vexed.

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c. 1330. Arth. & Merl., 7145. Vp he lepe with chaufed blod.

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1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, I. (1880), 20. On coast thee chauft flud is hurled.

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1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. iii. 33. When his [the horse’s] hot rider spurd his chauffed side.

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1593. Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., II. v. 126. Warwicke rages like a chafed Bull.

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1642. H. More, Song of Soul, I. I. li. His chafed feet, and the long way to town.

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1764. Churchill, The Author, Wks. 1774, II. 180. The chaf’d blood flies mounting to his cheeks.

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1791. Cowper, Iliad, III. 265. Some chafed and angry idiot.

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1816. Shelley, Alastor, 322. The white ridges of the chafèd sea.

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