Word Meaning

Meaning of chaff

- 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.

Crossword clue for chaff

- A little French affair for tease
- Banter some distance away from chaffinch
- Chopped hay
- Corn husks
- Grain husks
- Horse fodder
- Husks of grain
- Make fun of
- Tease