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Chaffing vs Chapping - What's the difference?

chaffing | chapping |

As verbs the difference between chaffing and chapping

is that chaffing is present participle of lang=en while chapping is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun chaffing

is the act by which somebody is chaffed; a teasing.

chaffing

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody is chaffed; a teasing.
  • * 1883 , (Edward Payson Roe), His Sombre Rivals
    • 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

    chapping

    English

    Verb

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