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Word: chaffing

Definition: bantering; joking


Sentences Containing 'chaffing'

Some of the jokers used to call at the association rooms and have a good time chaffing the members and offering them the charity of taking them as steersmen for a trip, so that they could see what the forgotten river looked like.

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