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The skin's way of filing a complaint about repetitive motion.
means To wear, irritate, or rub raw through repeated friction — or, figuratively, to feel irritated and restless under some constraint.
from From Old French 'chaufer,' meaning to warm or heat, which traces back to Latin 'calefacere' — 'calere' (to be hot) plus 'facere' (to make). The sense shifted from 'to heat by rubbing' to simply 'to rub' to 'to irritate by rubbing,' the friction's warmth giving way to its wear-and-tear. The same Latin root, incidentally, gave us 'cauldron' and 'calorie' — all children of heat.
- origin
- from latin calefacere, to make warm
- irony
- caused by friction, cured by less contact
- runners know
- nipples are the first casualties
- double meaning
- also means to be irritated, literally or not