Green’s Dictionary of Slang

chafe-litter n.

[lit. ‘rub-bed’]

(UK Und.) an impudent, cheeky person.

[UK]Awdeley Fraternitye of Vacabondes in Viles & Furnivall (1907) 13: Chafe Litter is he that wyll plucke vp the Feather-bed or matrice, and pysse in the bedstraw, and wyl neuer ryse vncalled.