CHAFF meaning: Husks separated from harvested grains

We found 45 dictionaries that define the word chaff:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

chaff: Merriam-Webster.com
chaff, chaff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
chaff, chaff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
chaff: Collins English Dictionary
chaff: Vocabulary.com
Chaff, chaff: Wordnik
chaff: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
chaff: Wiktionary
chaff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
chaff: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
chaff: Infoplease Dictionary
Chaff, chaff: Dictionary.com
chaff: Online Etymology Dictionary
Chaff (countermeasure), Chaff (disambiguation), Chaff (radar countermeasure), Chaff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Chaff: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
chaff: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
chaff: Rhymezone
Chaff: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
chaff: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Chaff: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
chaff: Free Dictionary
chaff: Mnemonic Dictionary
chaff: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
chaff: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)

Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)

chaff: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Chaff (radar countermeasure), chaff: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
chaff: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

chaff: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)

Chaff: Easton Bible
Chaff: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)

Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
Botanical Terms (No longer online)
Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

chaff, chaff, chaff: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
chaff: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)

Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
Explosives (No longer online)
Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
▸ noun:  Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
▸ noun:  (figurative) Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
▸ noun:  Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
▸ noun:  (military) Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cut up (straw or hay) for use as cattle feed.

Similar:

husk, shuck, stubble, straw, banter, kid, jolly, stalk, palea, chaffweed, more...

Opposite:

grain, kernel, nut

Types:

wheat chaff, rice chaff, barley chaff, corn chaff, oats chaff, rye chaff, more...

Phrases:

Chaff cutter, separate the wheat from the chaff, chiff chaff, black chaff, sort the wheat from the chaff, more...

Adjectives:

much, chiff, little, such, mere, light, dry, white, fine, natured, red

Colors:

beige, tan, wheat, khaki, sand, buff, ecru, camel, fawn, taupe

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