Crossword-Solution: CHAFFS 6 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

THE ORACLE No tram ever goes to Randwick races without him; he is always fat, hairy, and assertive; he is generally one of a party, and takes the centre of the stage all the time--collects and hands over the fares, adjusts the change, chaffs the conductor, crushes the thin, apologetic stranger next him into a pulp, and talks to the whole compartment as if they had asked for his opinion.

Rabelais chaffs Rondelet, under the name of Rondibilis; for, indeed, Rondelet grew up into a very round, fat, little man; but Rabelais puts excellent sense into his mouth, cynical enough, and too cynical, but both learned and humorous; and, if he laughs at him for being shocked at the offer of a fee, and taking it, nevertheless, kindly enough, Rondelet is not the first doctor who has done that, neither will he be the last.

For one brief moment you must admire Rooney with me as he receives, seats, manipulates, and chaffs his guests.

The "munengana,"or machila-man, is active in offering his light cane palanquin, and he chaffs the "mean white" who is compelled to walk, bitterly as did the sedan-chairmen of Bath before the days of Beau Nash.

Charles Reade chaffs the doctors very wittily in "Hard Cash" on their _penchant_ for the word "_hyperaesthesia,"_ but nothing else exactly defines that exaggeration of nervous sensibility which I have invariably seen in opium-eaters.