chauffer

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔː.fə/

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

• choffer

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]

Misspelling of chauffeur

chauffer (plural chauffers)

1. Misspelling of chauffeur.

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

1. Misspelling of chauffeur.

Inherited from Middle French chauffer, from Old French chauffer, chaufer, from Vulgar Latin *cal(e)fāre, from Latin calfacere or calefacere. Compare Occitan caufar, calfar, Catalan calfar.

• IPA^(key): /ʃo.fe/

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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)

• chauffage
• chauffe-eau
• chauffer à blanc
• chaufferette
• chaufferie
• chauffeur
• chauffoir
• de quel bois quelqu’un se chauffe
• réchauffer

• “chauffer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

chauffer

1. Alternative form of chaufer

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.