chaffing
adjective, noun, verb
chaffing is an adjective meaning “Pertaining to rubbing and abrasion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-A-F-F-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does chaffing mean?
adjective
- 1
Pertaining to rubbing and abrasion.
- 2
Characterized by teasing and joking.
- 3
Of or for chaffing (cutting hay or straw into small lengths)
noun
- 1
The act by which somebody is chaffed; a teasing.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of chaff
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of chaffing
- chaffings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chaffing?
Chaffing appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does chaffing come from?
By surface analysis, chaff + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).