chaff

chaff has 10 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.
• n.. Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.
• n.. Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
• n.. Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
• n.. The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower.
• v. i.. To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
• v. t.. To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
• n.. foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure
• n.. material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
• v.. be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around"