chaff in English

noun
1
the husks of corn or other seed separated by winnowing or threshing.
Spikes were threshed and florets (hereafter called seeds) separated from chaff by sieving and forced-air separation.
2
lighthearted joking; banter.
Made us roar in the mess, though I've had to put up with a certain amount of good-natured chaff about having a father who reads the Guardian, let alone writes for it!
verb
1
tease.
Manda had a feeling he enjoyed chaffing Michael and making his life miserable, but she had no idea why.
synonyms:teasemake fun ofpoke fun atmake sport ofribrazzkidjoshhave onpull someone's legpull/jerk/yank someone's chaingoof on

Use "chaff" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "chaff" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "chaff", or refer to the context using the word "chaff" in the English Dictionary.

1. KJV Dictionary Definition: Chaff Chaff

2. Environmentally friendly chaff dipole, chaff manufactured using same, and chaff cartridge having a chaff loaded therein

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5. Chaff definition: Chaff is the outer part of grain such as wheat

6. Chaff: discarded or useless material.

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9. I didn't mind their chaff.

10. Examples of Chaff in a sentence

11. Luke 3:17 N-ANS GRK: τὸ δὲ ἄχυρον κατακαύσει πυρὶ NAS: but He will burn up the Chaff with unquenchable KJV: but the Chaff he will burn INT: and [the] Chaff

12. NAS: but He will burn up the Chaff with unquenchable KJV: he will burn up the Chaff with unquenchable INT: and [the] Chaff he will burn up with fire

13. Sift out the wheat from the chaff.

14. This would blow the chaff away.

15. How to use Chaff in a sentence.

16. Separate the Wheat from the Chaff Meaning

17. There is no wheat without chaff

18. Saturation Chaff to mask vehicle and troop movements

19. Willow warblers and chiffChaffs are very similar, olive-coloured warblers, so are best identified by their song: ChiffChaffs sing 'chiff chaff chiff chaff'

20. Origin of Separate the Wheat from the Chaff

21. Chaff, stalks, grain dust, sand, earth, stones, dockage, etc

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23. They are sifting the wheat from the chaff.

24. What does Chaff mean? The definition of Chaff refers to useless things, grain husks and fine-cut straw, or light-hearted spoken exchanges

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26. Pieces of chaff or straw that fall from hay.

27. I fink they've got rid o' that chaff-cutter.

28. Audio CD Unquenchable Fire Burning the Chaff, Leaving the Blessings

29. Like chaff blown from the threshing floor by a storm,

30. The girl is winnowing the chaff from the corn.

31. Chased like the chaff of the mountains before a wind,

32. We often chaff him for his fear of his wife.

33. She stood there winnowing chaff all day in the field.

34. When they separate the wheat from the Chaff, they used to toss it into the air after the harvest and the wind would blow the Chaff away

35. It isn't always easy to separate the wheat from the chaff.

36. Chaff n noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc

37. But they are like Chaff which the wind drives away

38. My first job was pulling away colder, and carting chaff.

39. The first round of interviews really separates the wheat from the chaff.

40. Chaff, the husk of corn or wheat which was separated from the grain by being thrown into the air, the wind blowing away the Chaff, while the grain was saved

41. Chaff is the husks of corn separated from the grain by threshing

42. Chaff the husk of corn or wheat which was separated from the grain by being thrown into the air, the wind blowing away the Chaff, while the grain was saved

43. As verbs the difference between Chaff and husk is that Chaff is to use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter while husk is to

44. Other articles where Chaff is discussed: decoy: …of active decoy known as Chaff, which consists of tiny strips of aluminum or zinc that the aircraft releases in large bunches

45. Chaff A Chaff is the name given to a group (or person) of people who are moronic junkies who have dead end jobs and live in a rough estate

46. We sifted through the application forms to separate the wheat from the chaff.

47. English. Blaguer. joke, make fun of, laugh, tease, chaff, crack a joke

48. False scripts were written that disturbed the tabloids' radar like metallic chaff.

49. Chaff and flares are defensive mechanisms employed from military aircrafi to avoid detection and/or attack by adversary air defense systems. Chaff consists of small fibers that reflect radar

50. "Conceive mischief" (Job 15:35 Psalm 7:14), "Conceive chaff