Definition of chaff

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

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Scobby :: Scobby (n.) The chaffinch.
Weet-weet :: Weet-weet (n.) The chaffinch.
Twink :: Twink (n.) The chaffinch.
Pug :: Pug (n.) Chaff; the refuse of grain.
Winnow :: Winnow (v. i.) To separate chaff from grain.
Ramenta :: Ramenta (n. pl.) Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns..
Chafferer :: Chafferer (n.) One who chaffers; a bargainer.
Goatsucker :: Goatsucker (n.) One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europaeus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk..
Chaffern :: Chaffern (v. t.) A vessel for heating water.
Wheatsel Bird :: Wheatsel bird () The male of the chaffinch.
Riddle :: Riddle (v. t.) To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel..
Fan :: Fan (n.) To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat..
Chaff :: Chaff (v. t.) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
Paleous :: Paleous (a.) Chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous.
Glumelle :: Glumelle (n.) One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.
Chaffing :: Chaffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaf.
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower..
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
Robinet :: Robinet (n.) The chaffinch; -- called also roberd.
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