chaffing
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
chaffing
- present participle and gerund of chaff
Noun[edit]
chaffing (countable and uncountable, plural chaffings)
- The act by which somebody is chaffed; a teasing.
- 1883, Edward Payson Roe, His Sombre Rivals:
- Grace had made Graham laugh many a time by her inimitable descriptions of the quaint tilts and chaffings of these graybeards, as each urged the views of his favorite journals […]