Chaffing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CHAFFING in dictionary:

VERB:
• CHAFF, to poke fun at
• tease
NOUN:
• the husks of corn or other seed separated by winnowing or threshing.
• chopped hay and straw used as fodder.
• worthless things; rubbish
• strips of metal foil released in the air to obstruct radar detection.
• light-hearted joking; banter
• The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter.

Words related to CHAFFING

chaff16 chaffed19 chaffingly25 chaffs17

Words that contain CHAFFING

chaffings21 chaffingly25

How to use CHAFFING in a sentence

• There was some good-natured chaffing, and then one of the stewards was bribed to carry the cards of the assembled multitude to M.
• He seemed to meet his men almost solely on the plane of good-natured chaffing.
• These men are contented with privileges, and I who have fitted myself for a different sphere in life, am chaffing because I am denied rights.
• During the day the topics for conversation are about the hunting, war, stories of strange adventures, besides a good deal of good-natured joking and chaffing.
• He was extraordinarily frank about it all, and good-natured at the chaffing that Mrs.
• The scenes of starting and arriving, packing and unpacking, chaffing and quarreling, were all interesting.
• But there was no rude chaffing as the two walked a little apart from the rest.
• Scott himself, a man essentially unpractical, afforded Nelson amusement as well as interest, and was the object of a good deal of innocent chaffing.
• Many of those who were making a first voyage also put in their appearance, and they were subjected to much chaffing from the veterans of ocean travel.
• When the king and his bearers have gone down the hill, and have passed out of sight, the squires begin chaffing poor Kundry.
• Certainly, reader, you know that a regular London streeter, say a cabman, would rather go to jail than be beaten in a chaffing match.
• Then, the next day I was angry at you, because I thought you were chaffing me, as I was the only woman on the line, and I suppose I was rather impudent.
• The Southern boys were chaffing the Northerners over their oft repeated defeats.
• Sometimes they would hit him in a ticklish spot, and throw him into such a fit of laughter that they thought he was enjoying it all and chaffing them.
• But despite their chaffing, there was not a man there who did not respect the courage of his convictions, no less than the bravery of the man himself.
• After one the crowd of men became rather more indifferent, and clustered together in broad spots, eating their lunch, smoking cigars, and chaffing each other.
• He took my chaffing good-naturedly and assured me that his gray hairs were a badge of innocence which would excuse him on any charge.
• His thorough and fruitless search of the library had convinced him that the old man was merely chaffing him, as he put it, by leaving such a letter as he had written.
• Till I got too sulky and savage to seek unnecessary intercourse with any one, I found occasional amusement in chaffing the sentinels.
• If possible I skirted the region of the wharves and the rivers, where I always found something interesting going on, a vessel arriving or leaving, sailors chaffing and fighting.
• He rose lightly and confidently, and laughed at the chaffing of his friends.
• He was covered, however, as Salemina had supposed, and the occurrence gave us a precious opportunity of chaffing that dungeon of learning.
• I believe that you are chaffing, and came up only to swell the chorus.
• Thornton would have admitted the joke good-humoredly and would have taken outside chaffing with a good nature that would have disarmed all wit aimed at him.
• By this time the scars had healed fairly well, and I took the chaffing in all good humor.
• Fidel, however, took the chaffing without a denial, the padre and Uncle Lance being his two worst tormentors.
• They were making plans for the day, deciding what to see and what to leave unseen, laughing a great deal, and chaffing each other, parents and children together.
• A certain amount of good-natured chaffing may be indulged in.
• Instead of chaffing me, pressing me for an explanation of the double game I had presumably been playing, she looked at me with doubt and an obvious loss of confidence.
• Benedict came forth from the little cabin, and found Jim chaffing and petting his boy, he was much embarrassed.
• Men like Wade of Ohio, who enjoyed chaffing their discomfited opponents, took every occasion to taunt the author of the bill which had been the undoing of his party.
• One or two of the clerks ventured upon a chaffing remark.

Similar words containing CHAFF without suffix ing

chaff16 chaffs17 chaffy20 chaffed19 chaffer18 chaffers19 chaffery22 chaffier19 chaffron19 chaffered21 chafferer20 chaffiest20 chaffinch25 chaffings21 chaffrons20 chafferers21 chafferies21 chaffering22 chaffingly25 chiffchaff32 chaffinches27 chiffchaffs33

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