Definition of "chaffing" [chaff•ing]

• Present participle of chaff. (verb)
• The act by which somebody is chaffed; a teasing. (noun)

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• "Very fond of what is called chaffing, in his dealings with men, he never found himself on a sofa beside a member of the softer sex without feeling extremely serious."
• "DOBBS: Well, I'm still kind of chaffing at the idea that they can't ask one another questions, and offer rebuttal to one another's statement."
• "Bill glanced hastily about him, expecting the shouts of laughter and good-natured chaffing which is the inevitable aftermath of the clumsy misadventure of a riverman."