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Chauffeurs

[shoh-fer, shoh-fur] Origin

chauf·feur

[shoh-fer, shoh-fur]
noun
1.
a person employed to drive a private automobile or limousine for the owner.
2.
a person employed to drive a car or limousine that transports paying passengers.
verb (used with object)
3.
to drive (a vehicle) as a chauffeur.
4.
to transport by car: Saturday mornings I have to chauffeur the kids to their music lessons.

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Chauffeurs is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
verb (used without object)
5.
to work as a chauffeur: He chauffeured for a time right after the war.

Origin:
1895–1900; < French, equivalent to chauff(er) to heat (see chafe) + -eur -eur

un·chauf·feured, adjective
well-chauf·feured, adjective

chauffeur, shofar.
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Word Origin & History

chauffeur
1899, originally "a motorist," from Fr., lit. "stoker," operator of a steam engine, Fr. nickname for early motorists, from chauffer "to heat," from O.Fr. chaufer (see chafe). The first motor-cars were steam-driven. Sense of "professional or paid driver of a private motor car"
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is from 1902. The verb is first attested 1917.
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