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Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Light or worthless as chaff.

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

Chaffinch :: Chaffinch (n.) A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch..

Chaffern :: Chaffern (v. t.) A vessel for heating water.

Thummie :: Thummie (n.) The chiff-chaff.

Fringilla :: Fringilla (a.) A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling..

Chaff :: Chaff (n.) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.

Chaffer :: Chaffer (v. t.) To buy or sell; to trade in.

Spinnaker :: Spink (n.) The chaffinch.

Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chaff..

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

Wheatbird :: Wheatbird (n.) A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch..

Chaffwax :: Chaffwax (n.) Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.

Chaffering :: Chaffering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaffe.

Scale :: Scale (n.) A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns..

Chaffless :: Chaffless (a.) Without chaff.

Chafferer :: Chafferer (n.) One who chaffers; a bargainer.

Fan :: Fan (n.) An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away..

Paleous :: Paleous (a.) Chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous.

Chiff-chaff :: Chiff-chaff (n.) A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps..

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