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from The Century Dictionary.

  • The jaws; jaw-bones; chops.

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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chaff.

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Examples

  • Although it is tempting to use helicoptors to fly to each of the locations, soldiers with Stingers (man-portable SAM launchers) will not appear on your radar like emplaced or mounted SAM sites; nor was the idea of chaffs / counter - measures taken up for Mercenaries 2 (from the first game).

    IGN Complete 2009

  • Look at his magnificent, though reddish whiskers, and mark the somewhat native humour with which he 'chaffs' the boys and 'prentices, or cunningly gammons the gen'lm'n into the gift of a glass of gin, of which we verily believe he swallows in one day as much as any six ordinary men, without ever being one atom the worse for it.

    Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841

  • It was all there: Tailed pantsuits in mesmerizing jacquard, sculptural sheath dresses entirely made from monarch butterflies, or feathers that gleamed darkly like spilled oil or woven chaffs of wheat that appeared to be one with the models 'woven hairstyles.

    McQueen House Stuns With First Runway Show Since Designer's Death (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • It was all there: Tailed pantsuits in mesmerizing jacquard, sculptural sheath dresses entirely made from monarch butterflies, or feathers that gleamed darkly like spilled oil or woven chaffs of wheat that appeared to be one with the models 'woven hairstyles.

    McQueen House Stuns With First Runway Show Since Designer's Death (PHOTOS) Hilary Moss 2010

  • It was all there: Tailed pantsuits in mesmerizing jacquard, sculptural sheath dresses entirely made from monarch butterflies, or feathers that gleamed darkly like spilled oil or woven chaffs of wheat that appeared to be one with the models 'woven hairstyles.

    McQueen House Stuns With First Runway Show Since Designer's Death (PHOTOS) Hilary Moss 2010

  • And, down in the States, Kitty Bonner is pleased at the interest her husband takes in Alaskan education and the large sums he devotes to that purpose; and, though she often smiles and chaffs, deep down and secretly she is but the prouder of him.

    THE STORY OF JEES UCK 2010

  • I like my iPhone, but it still chaffs my ass that there's a ton of things I could do with my iPaq that I still can't do with the iPhone.

    Apple is the new Microsoft : #comments 2008

  • It was all there: Tailed pantsuits in mesmerizing jacquard, sculptural sheath dresses entirely made from monarch butterflies, or feathers that gleamed darkly like spilled oil or woven chaffs of wheat that appeared to be one with the models' woven hairstyles.

    McQueen House Stuns With First Runway Show Since Designer's Death (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Meantime, Kitty Bonner "is pleased at the interest her husband takes in Alaskan education and the large sums he devotes to that purpose; and, though she often smiles and chaffs, deep down and secretly she is but the prouder of him."

    “. . .all his race rose up before him in a mighty phantasmagoria. . .” 2008

  • Her spirit chaffs under the yoke imposed by her beloved adoptive neanderthal family.

    The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss Tia Nevitt 2009

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