chaff
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Is chaff a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of chaff?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (figurative) Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.Examples: "the chaff and ruin of the times"; "Who that has prided himself on his spiritual strength has not seen it humbled to the dust? A knowledge of religion, as distinguished from experience, seems but chaff in such moments of trial."figurativelyuncountableusually
2. (military) Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.Synonyms: windowuncountableusually
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.intransitive
2. (transitive) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language.Examples: "We were talking about it at mess, yesterday, and chaffing Derby Oaks—until he was as mad as a hatter."; "I’ve fallen asleep on my step as the ’bus was going on, and almost fallen off. I have often to put up with insolence from vulgar fellows, who think it fun to chaff a cad, as they call it."; "Bobby Wick stormed through the tents of his Company, rallying, rebuking, mildly, as is consistent with the Regulations, chaffing the faint-hearted[.]"Synonyms: quiztransitive
3. (transitive) To cut up (straw or hay) for use as cattle feed.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary