Meaning of CHAFF in English

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Meaning of CHAFF in English

• The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.
• Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.
• Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
• Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
• The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower.
• To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
• To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.

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