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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter.

chaffing

chaffing ‎(plural chaffings)

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 […]