chaff
IPA: tʃˈæf
noun
- The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
- Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
- (figurative) Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
- Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
- (military) Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.
verb
- (intransitive) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
- (transitive) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
- (transitive) To cut up (straw or hay) for use as cattle feed.
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Examples of "chaff" in Sentences
- And the chaff is a great big huge gigantic pile all right!
- An effective way to separate the chaff from the wheat is word-of-mouth.
- Your last argument about the wheat and the chaff is still unconvincing.
- But I do not know whether the habit of uttering ignoble ones in "chaff" does not at last bring the tone of mind down to the low level.
- She would open the hankies every morning after her morning prayers and count out fifteen piles of eighteen cents, eighteen being the corresponding number to the Hebrew letters in the word chaff, meaning life.
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