chaffing

chaffing means pertaining to rubbing and abrasion. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.

Etymology

By surface analysis, chaff + -ing.

adj

Pertaining to rubbing and abrasion.“This chaffing block has an obvious channel for fire hose and straps to attach it to the hose .”
Characterized by teasing and joking.“Concede all that to be true, and at the same time he is a man of exceeding vanity and egotism, fully confident of his own capacity, and judgment and superiority to other people, and he should make the remark in a chaffing or jesting way , that Jesus Christ was a good man, but he was smarter than Christ, would consider that expression standing alone, evidence of insanity ?”
Of or for chaffing (cutting hay or straw into small lengths)“The quantity of "seeds" and dust produced at a chaffing depot is variable , depending upon the nature of the hay cut and the proportion of straw added.”

The act by which somebody is chaffed; a teasing.“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[…]”