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.
Definitions
- noun. The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.
- noun. Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.
- noun. Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
- noun. Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
- noun. The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower.
- intransitive verb. To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
- transitive verb. To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
- noun. foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure
- noun. material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- verb. be silly or tease one another
"After we relaxed, we just kidded around"
Synonyms
husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble, banter, jolly, josh, kid
Common word forms
chaffs, chaffed, chaffer, chaffing, chaffless
Words from these letters
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