chaff

[chaff]

The proverbial phrase "separate the wheat from the chaff" may not be terribly meaningful to you unless you happen to be a grain farmer. The chaff is the husk surrounding a seed, the part of the grain that is generally thrown away.

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The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.

Noun
foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure

Noun
material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

Verb
be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around"

n.
The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.

n.
Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.

n.
Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.

n.
Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.

n.
The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower.

v. i.
To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.

v. t.
To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.

Chaff

Chaff , n. [AC. ceaf; akin to D. kaf, G. kaff.] 1. The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.
So take the corn and leave the chaff behind.
Old birds are not caught with caff.
2. Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.
The chaff and ruin of the times.
3. Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
By adding chaff to his corn, the horse must take more time to eat it. In this way chaff is very useful.
4. Light jesting talk; banter; raillery. 5. (Bot.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Composit'91, as the sunflower. Gray. Chaff cutter, a machine for cutting, up straw, etc., into "chaff" for the use of cattle.

Chaff

Chaff, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chaffed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Chaffing.] To use light, idle lagnguage by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.

Chaff

Chaff, v. t. To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
Morgan saw that his master was chaffing him.
A dozen honest fellows . . . chaffed each other about their sweethearts.

The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.

To use light, idle lagnguage by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.

To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.

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Usage Examples

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

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