Definition of chaff

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

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Shilfa :: Shilfa (n.) The chaffinch; -- so named from its call note.
Ventilation :: Ventilation (n.) The act of fanning, or winnowing, for the purpose of separating chaff and dust from the grain..
Dicker :: Dicker (n.) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker..
Winnow :: Winnow (v. i.) To separate chaff from grain.
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower..
Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.
Paleaceous :: Paleaceous (a.) Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleae, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle..
Chiff-chaff :: Chiff-chaff (n.) A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps..
Spinnaker :: Spink (n.) The chaffinch.
Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers..
Quiz :: Quiz (v. t.) To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions..
Chaffery :: Chaffery (n.) Traffic; bargaining.
Weet-weet :: Weet-weet (n.) The chaffinch.
Receptacular :: Receptacular (a.) Pertaining to the receptacle, or growing on it; as, the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower..
Glumelle :: Glumelle (n.) One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.
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..
Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chaff..
Chaffer :: Chaffer (n.) To talk much and idly; to chatter.
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.
Wheatsel Bird :: Wheatsel bird () The male of the chaffinch.
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