Etymology

Chaffin

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Today it means: A surname transferred from the nickname. Full definition →

Middle English chaffin ← Old French chauf
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromchauf“bald”
  2. Middle English · derived fromchaffin
  3. English todayChaffin

A nickname for a bald man, from Middle English chaffin, a diminutive of Old French chauf (“bald”).

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchchauf all →

Chaffee

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.