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 ā Oct. 9, 2014
He snarls as well as chaffs at a world with the gout.
From Time Magazine Archive
How she pulls all the other girls to pieces, by Jove, and how splendidly she chaffs everybody!
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
He chaffs her tremendously about her radicalism, and he is so immensely clever that she can’t answer him, though she is rather clever too.
From A Bundle of Letters by Henry James
He stands it from me and only chaffs.
From Elizabeth's Campaign by Mrs. Humphry Ward
