chaft

• chaff, chuff (dialectal)

Inherited from Northern Middle English chaft, from Old Norse kjaptr, kjǫptr, from Proto-Germanic *kefutaz.

• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaf(t)/

chaft (plural chafts)

1. (dialect, Scotland, Northern England) The jaw.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaft/

Borrowed from Old Norse kjaptr (with a development of kj- /kj/ to /t͡ʃ/), from Proto-Germanic *kefutaz.

• chafte, chaffte, schaft

chaft (plural chaftes)

1. (Northern) jaw, jawbone

• English: chaft (dialectal)
• Middle Scots: chaft, schaft
  • Scots: chaft, chaff, shaft

• “chaft, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

chaft

1. alternative form of schaft (“creation”)