chaff
noun
the husks of grains and grasses that are separated during threshing.
has chaffed
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present perfectof chaff (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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"Well, you're not the first man who has chaffed me about that."
From The Doctor of Pimlico Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime by William Le Queux
I regret to say that travellers have treated this national relish disrespectfully, as continentals do our "plomb- boudin:" Mr. W. Winwood Reade has chaffed it, and another Briton has compared it with "greaves."
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
