Chaffin

Now, the Rooshan gangs and the Tartar gangs, a-comin 'from their work, used to cross each other jist at this bridge; and o' course there was a good deal o 'chaffin' among 'em, and some fightin ', too, now and then; for I needn't tell _you_ that a Rooshan and a Tartar are jist about as fond of each other as a Rooshan and a Turk. ❋ Various (N/A)

O 'course I had to stand the jokes an' chaffin 'of the fello's, ❋ Paul Laurence Dunbar (1889)

“Ye‘ll excoose me, I know, for a-chaffin’ of ye, but the old woman her winked at me, which was as much as telling me to go on.” ❋ Unknown (2003)

"Ye'll excoose me, I know, for a-chaffin 'of ye, but the old woman here winked at me, which was as much as telling me to go on." ❋ Elon, Amos (2001)

Thaa knows it used to be hard afore when they were all chaffin 'me at th' factory, but they can talk their tungs off naa for aught I care. ❋ Marshall Mather (N/A)

'N' hot days, when th 'hands was chaffin' 'n' singin ', th' black wheels 'n' rollers was alive, starin 'down at me,' n 'th' shadders o 'th' looms was like snakes creepin ', -- creepin' anear all th 'time. ❋ Various (N/A)

As they crossed each other one o 'the Rooshans pulls a bit o' sassage out of his pocket and holds it up to the foremost Tartar (a great ugly-lookin 'bruiser with one eye), and says to him, chaffin' like, "Hollo, Mourad! d'ye want a bit o 'grease to make yer beard grow?" ❋ Various (N/A)

Cotten in double paper, and dry it over a chaffin dish of coales: ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

My sailor-brother started it by chaffin 'Polly about' er red 'air an' arskin 'why she didn't cut it orf, an' she told 'im then that if' e'd such an objection to red she wondered 'e didn't cut' is own nose orf. ❋ Various (1898)

Ye'll excoose me, I know, for a-chaffin 'of ye, but the old woman here winked at me, which was as much as telling me to go on. ❋ Unknown (1897)

Dave Regan was pretty wild about being had, an 'we copped all the gals for darncin'; he couldn't get one that night, an 'when he wasn't proddin' out his tooth with a red-hot wire some one was chaffin 'him about Mrs Hardwick. ❋ Henry Lawson (1894)

[66] But the roughs they kept on chaffin 'and the uproar it was such ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)

The nudges an 'the nods an' winks an 'stale good-natured chaffin'. ❋ Paul Laurence Dunbar (1889)

Sid wor soa taen, wol he put up his hands to mak sure 'at he worn't asleep; an' th 'chaps' at he'd been tellin his tale to, began to smell a rat, an 'at last it wor all explained, an' niver mind if ther worn't some laffin an 'chaffin. ❋ John Hartley (1877)

And then they was a-jawin 'about the shine up here that night, and the pal was a-chaffin' Mashing cos of the wipin 'my bloke give' im, and Mashing he says he reckons he's quits with the prig -- meaning the governor -- by this time, he says. ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)

By and by he come over to where me and my mates was, and began chaffin 'us, which we didn't mind it, seeing he was' eavy in the 'ead. ❋ Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1871)

"If you took to chaffin 'a bit later in the day, it'd impart more confidence to my bosom," said the cabman; but this he said to that bosom alone. ❋ George Meredith (1868)