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chauffer

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

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Noun

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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.[1]

Etymology 2

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Misspelling of chauffeur

Noun

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chauffer (plural chauffers)

  1. Misspelling of chauffeur.

Verb

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

  1. Misspelling of chauffeur.

References

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited 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

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  • IPA(key): /ʃo.fe/
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Verb

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chauffer

  1. to heat, to warm, to warm up
  2. (slang) to tease, to entice sexually, to arouse
    Synonyms: allumer, aguicher
  3. (Quebec) to drive (a vehicle)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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Old French

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Verb

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chauffer

  1. Alternative form of chaufer

Conjugation

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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.