chauffer

See also: Chauffer

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔː.fə/

Etymology 1

Compare French chauffoir a kind of stove, from chauffer (to heat). See chafe.

Alternative forms

Noun

chauffer (plural chauffers)

  1. A small, portable stove
  2. A chafing dish
  3. (chemistry) A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.

Etymology 2

Misspelling of chauffeur

Noun

chauffer (plural chauffers)

  1. Misspelling of chauffeur.

Verb

chauffer (third-person singular simple present chauffers, present participle chauffering, simple past and past participle chauffered)

  1. Misspelling of chauffeur.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for chauffer in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)


French

Etymology

From Middle French chauffer, from Old French chauffer, chaufer, from Vulgar Latin *cal(e)fāre, from Latin calfacere or calefacere, present active infinitive of calefaciō. Compare Occitan caufar, calfar, Catalan calfar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃo.fe/
  • (file)

Verb

chauffer

  1. to heat, to warm, to warm up
  2. (slang) to tease, to entice sexually, to arouse
    Synonyms: allumer, aguicher

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading


Old French

Verb

chauffer

  1. Alternative form of chaufer

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ff, *-ffs, *-fft are modified to f, s, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

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