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Examples
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Chaffing Scrotum is the BEST actor of his generation.
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Moving right along, I need a Senator to step up for the Americans Against Chaffing (AAC) Amendment.
Shannyn Moore: Stupak's Flaccid Amendment Needs No Viagra 2009
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“Chaffing indeed!” says I, with a particularly arch eye-twinkle at Miss Fanny.
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Chaffing and teasing about beaux and courtship and marriage are very unbecoming, and blur that delicacy of feeling which is the greatest charm in the relation between young people of opposite sexes.
Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls Helen Ekin Starrett
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Chaffing aside, "he added more seriously," we'll have to be rigidly economical, Jonathan, for we can't tell how long it may be before we fall in with a ship or reach land, and we've already experienced something of what the pangs of starvation are like, though, thank God, we were not put so severely to the test as some have been!
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Chaffing each other good naturedly, they tramped along, and when they saw the size of the antlers and body of the second buck they forgot all rivalry.
Comrades of the Saddle The Young Rough Riders of the Plains Frank V. Webster
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Chaffing apart, that is the feeling of the oldest unit towards the newest.
Letters from France 1923
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Chaffing each other amiably they returned together.
The Red Redmaynes Eden Phillpotts 1911
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Chaffing is a bad habit anyway, and was his worst fault when I was here before; so far, his woes have improved him.
A Pessimist In Theory and Practice Frederic Mayer Bird 1873
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Chaffing you, and getting you sometimes into a rage -- which was pretended, rather than real -- did me a lot of good.
Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti Walter Paget 1867
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