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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In the front-line trench a small group of Yorkshire lads were chaffing one another.
From Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs
She thought you were chaffing her all the time.”
From The Willoughby Captains by Talbot Baines Reed
The Mussulman and the cavalry officer were chaffing the Philosopher and poking fun at the phrase-mongers, hair-splitters, and other wasters of time.
From Men in War by Andreas Latzko
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
"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
