chaff
/t͡ʃæf/ verbo C2En español: bromear, tomar el pelo, cortar paja
- To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
- To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language.
- To cut up (straw or hay) for use as cattle feed.
He/she/it chaffs · Pasado chaffed · Participio pasado chaffed · Forma en -ing chaffing
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- chaff
- He/she/it
- chaffs
- Pasado
- chaffed
- Participio pasado
- chaffed
- Forma en -ing
- chaffing
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But when the war was over, he only allowed him chaff to eat and made him carry heavy loads of wood, subjecting him to much slavish drudgery and ill-treatment.
“I wouldn’t have the Scotland Yarders know it for the world,” he cried, dropping into his chair; “I have chaffed them so much that they would never have let me hear the end of it.
You may possibly remember that you chaffed me a little, some hours ago, when the sun seemed on your side of the hedge, so you must not grudge me a little pomp and ceremony now.
Besides, I owed you a little mystification, Lestrade, for your chaff in the morning.”
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