Dictionary Entry
chaff
chaff is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 16 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.
- 2noun
Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.
- 3noun
Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
- 4noun
Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
- 5noun
The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower.
- 6intransitive verb
To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
- 7transitive verb
To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
- 8noun
foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure
- 9noun
material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- 10verb
be silly or tease one another
"After we relaxed, we just kidded around"
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