is chaffing
- present progressive of chaff (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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At one point Mr Fucarile stops the interview - his new prosthetic leg is chaffing, and he is beginning to blister.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2014
Beauregard, with a badly-organized staff, is chaffing over the delay that has occurred in carrying out his own plan of battle.
From The Great Conspiracy, Volume 3 by Logan, John Alexander
"Then the expression of my honest opinion, which is also the opinion of every other officer in the ship, is chaffing you," retorted the engineer.
From On The Blockade by Optic, Oliver
Have you ever watched an elderly male or female—an elderly "party," so to speak, who begins to find out that some young wag of the company is "chaffing" him?
From Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace
My dear fellow!" cried Prince S., with some annoyance, "don't you see that he is chaffing you?
From The Idiot by Martin, Eva M.
