Definitions for chaff

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Spelling: [chaf, chahf]

IPA: /tʃæf, tʃɑf/

Chaff is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in chaff (acffh).

Definitions for chaff

noun

1. the husks of grains and grasses that are separated during threshing.
2. straw cut up for fodder.
3. worthless matter; refuse.
4. the membranous, usually dry, brittle bracts of the flowers of certain plants.
5. Also called window. Military. strips of metal foil dropped by an aircraft to confuse enemy radar by creating false blips.
6. good-natured ridicule or teasing; raillery.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to mock, tease, or jest in a good-natured way; banter:

Origin of chaff

before 1000; Middle English chaf, Old English ceaf; cognate with Middle Low German, Dutch kaf

Examples for chaff

All this was only chaff and fun, for all the fairies were in good humor.

He collected what he wanted grain by grain from bushels of chaff.

For CinemaSins, the cookie cutter approach often takes much of the chaff, but leaves behind the wheat.

Your miner friends notice the stiffness of your walk and chaff you about it.

Yankees tend to shrug off such numbers as largely the chaff drifting down.

Geoff had to stand some chaff from his friends on the subject of the "darkey," of course.

I say you're no good as an interview because no one is very good at sorting the wheat from the chaff.

When I had emptied myself of my chaff, I perceived that the time had come.

A cry of surprise was raised, and drowned in a volley of ribald inquiry and chaff.

This is where working your way through all that chaff gets fun.