Chaff: English to English |
Chaff (n.) Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything. |
Chaff (n.) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery. |
Chaff (n.) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. |
Chaff (n.) The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc. |
Chaff (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower. |
Chaff (v. i.) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter. |
Chaff (v. t.) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz. |