n. 1 banter, raillery, ridicule, badinage, joking, teasing, twitting, Colloq kidding, ragging, Chiefly US and Canadian joshing After the speech, he had to put up with a lot of good-natured chaff from the audience
v. 2 banter, tease, twit, rail at, Colloq kid, rag, Chiefly US and Canadian josh When he was in the navy, his family chaffed him for having a girl in every port