Men and women are vastly given to 'chaffing' and to nicknaming.    From Wordnik.com.  [To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative] Reference

The only "chaffing" I heard was the question from one of the galleries, "Did he come in the One-Hoss Shay?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Hundred Days in Europe] Reference

"chaffing" each other in a style peculiar to themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves] Reference

"chaffing" Lord Magellan, drew a disagreeable amount of notice from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Marriage of William Ashe] Reference

'chaffing' the productions of one of his fellow 'men' were infinitely more critical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Sides of the Shield] Reference

"chaffing" with a vim and bitterness which could have their source only in a feeling of personal spite and hatred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Rutherford's Nieces A Story for Girls] Reference

"chaffing" him, and observed that that was no business of their's, the curas of the villages did all that sort of thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference

"chaffing" him, taking a malicious pleasure in so doing, from the reason that he could not "chaff" me back again in return.    From Wordnik.com.  [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference

"chaffing" among the younger men about the probability of a mistake as to the nature of the footprints by such unaccustomed sportsmen; but.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Settler and the Savage] Reference

I wasn't chaffing, and had no idea of such a thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference

Now and then there was some chaffing, good-natured if rough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference

The first welcome over, he came in for more or less chaffing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

"It's all right, boys," he said, in response to their chaffing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

Into the midst of all this good-natured chaffing and chattering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Fenton on the Crew or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School] Reference

Some LDP lawmakers are chaffing at what they call Koizumi's pushy style.    From Wordnik.com.  [A LONG, HOT SUMMER] Reference

There had been a good deal of chaffing between them, which ended in a row.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cattle and Cattle-breeders] Reference

We had great fun -- she chaffing and questioning, and I trying to fight her off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference

She felt his stiff hairs on his face chaffing the sensitive areas of her thighs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Sense] Reference

The shoulder part of the seatbelt was attached to the door and was chaffing my neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [The worst road trip cars ever, part 1] Reference

Soon the camp was filled with men talking, laughing, chaffing like light-hearted boys.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

When he was questioning a man in the lecture-room, you felt that all the time he was half chaffing him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to His Friends] Reference

That name was originated some years before by Mr. Burnand and myself jointly in a chaffing conversation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference

He is rather fond of chaffing M'Allister, who has a quiet humour of his own, and takes it all in good part.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference

Florian is discovered when the scene draws, kneeling at the hearth and chaffing his hands before the fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference

Rose was sitting disconsolately on the wood-box the other evening; I began chaffing her about her melancholy looks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference

They were chatting, jesting, chaffing one another, and occasionally playing pranks, which once or twice started a squabble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rival Pitchers of Oakdale] Reference

Before the game began there was a good deal of cheerful chaffing on the respective merits of the "J" and "K" Company teams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in a Tank] Reference

James and his mules were placed safely on the towing-path, he had to stand a considerable amount of good-humoured chaffing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Garfield Farm-boy, Soldier, and President] Reference

Now Nelly's chaffing words had left their sting, and I felt humiliated by being discussed downstairs so freely before them all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story] Reference

Many more were chatting in an undertone, grumbling over their sore feet and other discomfits, chaffing each other, and laughing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brigade Commander] Reference

And she rushed off followed more slowly by Josephine who vowed that she wasn't going to escape a chaffing by such diplomatic exits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judy of York Hill] Reference

He appeared at breakfast the next morning, good-naturedly accepted all the chaffing he got, and bravely essayed another that evening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference

They streamed out; there was laughing and chaffing; now and then, among the younger ones, some good-natured fisticuffs were exchanged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference

Bea's dimple twinkled and she took a step forward under the impulse to join them for the fun of chaffing them about such polite devotion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference

As the new comers came in, Waldmann, standing in front of the counter with a bottle in one hand and a glass in the other, was chaffing her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference