chaffing
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.89 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to rubbing and abrasion.
adj
Characterized by teasing and joking.
Example Sentences
- "This chaffing block has an obvious channel for fire hose and straps to attach it to the hose ."
- "He had sand in his hair, his ears, his underwear. It was all very chaffing, and he wanted a shower."
- "The clothes required carefully rinsing, since lye soap left in the clothes was very chaffing to the skin."
- "Concede all that to be true, and at the same time he is a man of exceeding vanity and egotism, fully confident of his own capacity, and judgment and superiority to other people, and he should make the remark in a chaffing or jesting way , that Jesus Christ was a good man, but he was smarter than Christ, would consider that expression standing alone, evidence of insanity ?"
- "Healy was in a very chaffing mood among his brother priests—complimented one on having been recently called to the Chapter , and , addressing another Pastor not so favoured , who possessed a house - organ of such neat workmanship that it was said a great hierarch once called to see it, exclaimed: 'Present that organ of yours as an offering, and you'll soon be as red about the gills as any of them.'"
- "The P.M. at Bridge afterwards was in a very chaffing mood."