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chafeweed

chafeweed noun: cudweed (Gnaphalium), which was used as a remedy for chafing.

Noun

chafeweed (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Cudweed (Gnaphalium), which was used as a remedy for chafing.

Origin of chafeweed

From chafe + weed.

Questions about chafeweed

What does chafeweed mean?
Chafeweed means cudweed (Gnaphalium), which was used as a remedy for chafing.
What part of speech is chafeweed?
Chafeweed is a noun.

Words near chafeweed in the dictionary

  1. chafesome
  2. chafest
  3. chafeth
  4. chafewax
  5. chafewaxes
  6. chafeweed
  7. chaff
  8. chaff cutter
  9. chaff cutters
  10. chaff engine
  11. chaff engines

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