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chaff
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Word definitions for chaff in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chaff \Chaff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chaffed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Chaffing .] To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"husks," Old English ceaf "chaff," probably from Proto-Germanic *kaf- "to gnaw, chew" (cognates: Middle Dutch and Dutch kaf , German Kaff ), from PIE root *gep(h)- "jaw, mouth" (see jowl (n.1)). Used figuratively for "worthless material" from late 14c.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant. 2 By extension, any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless. 3 Loose material dropped from aircraft specifically to interfere with radar detection. 4 Straw or hay cut up fine ...
Usage examples of chaff.
The steps were complex and there was a lot of good-humored chaffing as Alec jostled to and fro between Beka and Elsbet.
They were chaffing her bawdily, one fumbling after her breasts, as the great wooden wheels rumbled by.
There are bruises on his neck and arms from the pressure of the restraining straps during his high-g maneuvers, the result of a 200-mile drag race with the Nebraska heat that ended with one chopper forced down in a cornfield and a coleopter that seems to have sucked a bale of aluminum chaff into an intake and had to stagger home on one engine.
There was no end of speculation and chaff around the camp-fires, therefore, early in the summer, when Devers, most unwillingly, it was said, was hauled in from some outlying post where he had nothing to do but hunt, eat, and sleep, and reported for duty on what turned out to be the toughest of Indian campaigns.
But, instead of completing the turn, he turned back toward the other contact while simultaneously ejecting his own mass of chaff and flares.
They whirled and beat, lashing hair and garments, pelting the Farers with leaves and twigs and heads of broken grain, chaff to sting and blind the eyes.
Chaff watched as it sailed out of the cove, followed by the slugging hogger with its cargo of wounded and dejected men.
I had to ride backwards, I was compelled to face a gang of roughs in a donkey-cart, whom Lupin had chaffed, and who turned and followed us for nearly a mile, bellowing, indulging in coarse jokes and laughter, to say nothing of occasionally pelting us with orange-peel.
Commando Nek on the Little Crocodile River, where he summoned Baden-Powell to surrender, and received some chaff in reply from that light-hearted commander.
He braved the gay and guileless laugh Of children with their nusses, The loud uneducated chaff Of clerks on omnibuses.
Threshing consists in beating the ears with thick sticks to loosen the husks, after which the padi is carried in baskets to platforms ten feet above the ground, and is allowed to fall on mats, when the chaff is driven away by the wind.
Chaff could have said would have prepared Kelber for the tremendous upsoaring of his spirit.
The Mig broke hard to the left as the Hellfire left the outboard pylon and accelerated to just under Mach 1 Manesh put the craft in a vertical climb and began dispensing flares and chaff.
If it were so, that the father or the goodman of the house had a matrass or flock-bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town, so well were they contented.
The panzer emerges into a clearing, where a metal maintenance shack rusts on its slab of concrete, and in that brief moment Cowboy fires a chaff rocket straight up and dives among the alloy trees once more.