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Chaffed

Chaff \Chaff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chaffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Chaffing.] To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.

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chaffed

vb. (en-past of: chaff)

Usage examples of "chaffed".

But after we had met in the hall of the hotel, and Ivor had seemed confused, and wouldn't give up his mysterious engagement, or say what it was, though Lisa chaffed him and he must have known what I thought, I suddenly forgot the slight he had put upon me.

If not, when they had chaffed him he might easily have mentioned what his engagement really was, knowing, as he must have known, exactly how he made me suffer.

He had recovered from the sense of annoyance at being chaffed by Stone, but it made him more resolved than ever to prove the strange theory he had formed.

He blushed a great deal when the others chaffed him for his obvious preference.

She was ready when he fetched her, and he chaffed her for her unwonted punctuality.

The boy was pleased to see him, and Philip chaffed him as he put a clean dressing on the wound.

He chaffed Margaret, too, and Margaret, roused from a grave meditation, was pleased, and chaffed him back.

When they told him of their search, he only chaffed Tibby and the Schlegels generally, and declared that it was "just like Helen" to lead her relatives a dance.

As they formed for battle among the trees and bushes they too talked, and with the freedom of republican troops, who fight all the better for it, they chaffed the young officers, especially the aides, as they passed.

He recognized that all this talk was the product of exuberant spirits, and officers much older than he, chaffed in a like manner, took it in the same way.

Wix had told her, that what this lady had come over for was not merely to be chaffed and to hear her pupil chaffed.

That was three months back, three months of anxious waiting, in which Howard had chaffed me daily on my looks and health.