chaff
noun
the husks of grains and grasses that are separated during threshing.
had chaffed
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past perfectof chaff.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Already the Wady Mulaybij had shown us the familiar peak and dorsum of Jebel Raydán; and we had "chaffed" Furayj about his sudden return home.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
For he remembered how often he had chaffed the old Koranna on his much vaunted prowess as a hunter, little thinking in what stead it should eventually stand himself.
From Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt by Bertram Mitford
So it came that I met all, or nearly all the guests, groups who had chaffed at me, and yet, knowing my status, made me one of them.
From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Stanley Waterloo
That was three months back, three months of anxious waiting, in which Howard had chaffed me daily on my looks and health.
From To-morrow? by Victoria Cross
The doctor had chaffed me so villanously all the way back that my disappointment and mortification had vanished, and had given place to a feeling of resentment.
From The Lady of the Ice A Novel by James De Mille
