The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chaffing \Chaff"ing\, n. The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter.
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.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which somebody is chaffed; a teasing. vb. (present participle of chaff English)
Usage examples of "chaffing".
But he chose at present to make light of it, almost as if he were chaffing above his knowledge of some calamity.
A couple of chaffing old beggars they were, but they had found me a topping dead sportsman of their own sort.
He came to the Spilmer public house and for a moment stared up, quite still, at the “Last Chance” on its chaffing signboard.
You'd look fine," said a corporal, chaffing a thin little soldier who bent under the weight of his knapsack.
Yet unmistakably, Johnny Dromore, sauntering along the rails of Piccadilly on the Green Park side, with that slightly rolling gait of his thin, horseman's legs, his dandified hat a little to one side, those strange, chaffing, goggling eyes, that look, as if making a perpetual bet.
He began to throw out chaffing remarks about people not looking quite so happy as they did a day or two ago.
Wherever there was a turmoil of merry-making or fighting or feasting or chaffing or quarreling, or a gilded pageant, or other manifestation of our trivial and fleeting life, into it drifted that black figure with the corpseface, and looked its fateful look and passed on.