chaff
noun
the husks of grains and grasses that are separated during threshing.
were chaffing
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past progressiveof chaff.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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However, they were very cordial, and presently he found that they were chaffing one another for his benefit, and trying to bring him within the arc of their own easy comradeship.
From The Main Chance by Meredith Nicholson
Every observer of eastern feathered folk is familiar with our "little boy blue," the indigo-bird, whose song is such a rollicking and saucy air, making you feel as if the little lyrist were chaffing you.
From Birds of the Rockies by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
Dr Scott and Dewar were chaffing each other, as they very frequently did.
From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Gordon Stables
Both had short white kid gloves that showed a little rim of red wrist; their friends were chaffing them unmercifully; the bride was giggling, the sailor looking imperturbable.
From Captivity by M. Leonora Eyles
"Well, then, you know how you were chaffing me, the other day, about finding Mademoiselle Pointdexter?"
From In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain by Charles Mills Sheldon
