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Chaffing vs Fretting - What's the difference?

chaffing | fretting |

As verbs the difference between chaffing and fretting

is that chaffing is while fretting is .

As nouns the difference between chaffing and fretting

is that chaffing is the act by which somebody is chaffed; a teasing while fretting is action of the verb to fret .

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

    fretting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Action of the verb to fret .