chaff
noun
the husks of grains and grasses that are separated during threshing.
chaffs
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present tense formof chaff (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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“One American can relish hugely the entertainment afforded when one quizzical Englishman chaffs his shy, ineloquent countrymen without expecting all other Americans to shake with laughter at the same spectacle,” Woollcott wrote.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2014
He snarls as well as chaffs at a world with the gout.
From Time Magazine Archive
I almost never see him, and when he does remember me he chaffs me as if I were a silly child.
From Together by Robert Herrick
The fifth letter opens with a long complimentary flourish in a barbarous mixture of Italian and Spanish, and then chaffs Pirkheimer unmercifully for his increasing intrigues.
From Dürer Artist-Biographies by M. F. Sweetser
For one brief moment you must admire Rooney with me as he receives, seats, manipulates, and chaffs his guests.
From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by O. Henry
