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Chaffing vs Chafing - What's the difference?

chaffing | chafing |

As verbs the difference between chaffing and chafing

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

As nouns the difference between chaffing and chafing

is that chaffing is the act by which somebody is chaffed; a teasing while chafing is the act by which something is chafed.

chaffing

English

Verb

(head)

    • 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

    chafing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is chafed.
  • * 1853 , The Popular Educator: Volume 3 (page 325)
    • The constant and irresistible pressure of such a ponderous mass in motion must occasion certain rubbings and chafings against the rugged bottoms and projecting sides of the rocks amid which they move.