chaffing adjective 3noun 1forms 1 adjective3 •Characterized by teasing and joking.The P.M. at Bridge afterwards was in a very chaffing mood. — 2023 •Pertaining to rubbing and abrasion.This chaffing block has an obvious channel for fire hose and straps to attach it to the hose . — 2009 •Of or for chaffing (cutting hay or straw into small lengths)The quantity of "seeds" and dust produced at a chaffing depot is variable , depending upon the nature of the hay cut and the proportion of straw added. — 1919 noun1 •The act by which somebody is chaffed; a teasing.Grace had made Graham laugh many a time by her inimitable descriptions of the quaint tilts and chaffings of these graybeards, as each urged the views of his favorite journals[…] — 1883 formschaffings
