Chagrin is annoyance mixed with wounded pride. Much to his chagrin, a look of chagrin, hide his chagrin.
It appears almost only as much to somebody's chagrin, and the phrase is usually mildly comic. What separates it from anger is the self-regard: chagrin is the feeling of having been shown up.
1nounchagrinAnnoyance mixed with wounded pride.
“Much to his chagrin, his younger brother beat him at chess again.”
chagrin is an annoyance.
French chagrin means sorrow or vexation, of uncertain further origin.
Old French
greignier
fro-nor
chagreiner
Middle French
chagrin — pain, affliction
French
chagrin — sorrow
English, today
chagrin
Built from
From French chagrin (“sorrow”), from Middle French chagrin (“pain, affliction”) (compare Middle French chagriner, chagrigner (“to experience sorrow”), Old French chagrin (“painful, afflicted”)), probably derived from fro-nor chagreiner, chagraigner (“to sadden”), of unknown origin. Likely an enlargement of Old French greignier, graignier (“to cringe, growl, be sullen, be angry, grieve over”), from Old French graigne (“sadness, resentment, grief”), from graim (“sorrowful”), related to Old High German gram (“furious, gloomy, grieved”). The initial syllable is obscure. It may represent Old French chat (“cat”) to express the idea of "lamenting or yowling like cats" (compare German Katzenjammer (“distress, frustration, depression, chagrin”) literally “cat-wailing, cat-misery”, katzbalgen (“to cat-fight”)). An alternative theory is that it came from a metaphorical use of French chagrin, peau de chagrain (“a type of roughened leather”), with the connection of roughness, though some dictionaries consider this to be a separate word derived from Old French peau de sagrin, from ota صاغری (“the rump of an animal, skin for tawing”). The alteration of initial s to ch is likely due to influence from chagrin meaning "sorrow".
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