Chafe may be:

• Chafe parish in Nigeria, Africa
• Chafé in Portugal, Europe (pronunciation: sha-FEH), a parish in the municipality of Viana do Castelo
• Chafe, a Martian crater
• chafe is heat excited by friction and vexation, irritation of mind and rage.
• chafed skin is a rash that develops from two areas rubbing together repeatedly
• in Australian youth slang, to chafe is to suck up or brown nose to someone

As a surname:

• Wallace Chafe, an American linguist

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