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chaffings

chaffings is the plural of chaffing.

Meaning of chaffing

Noun

chaffing (countable and uncountable, plural chaffings)

  1. 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, Edward Payson Roe, His Sombre Rivals

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Questions about chaffings

What is chaffings the plural of?
Chaffings is the plural of chaffing.

Words near chaffings in the dictionary

  1. chaffing dish
  2. chaffing dishes
  3. chaffing-dish
  4. chaffing-dishes
  5. chaffingly
  6. chaffings
  7. Chaffins
  8. Chaffinses
  9. chaffle
  10. chaffles
  11. chaffless

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