Word Meanings - CHAFF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositæ, as the sunflower. Gray. Chaff cutter, a machine for cutting, up straw, etc., into "chaff" for the use of cattle. (more info) 1. The glumes or husks

Additional info about word: CHAFF

The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositæ, as the sunflower. Gray. Chaff cutter, a machine for cutting, up straw, etc., into "chaff" for the use of cattle. (more info) 1. The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc. So take the corn and leave the chaff behind. Dryden. Old birds are not caught with caff. Old Proverb. 2. Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything. The chaff and ruin of the times. Shak. 3. Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. By adding chaff to his corn, the horse must take more time to eat it. In this way chaff is very useful. Ywatt. 4. Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CHAFF)

• Banter
• Badinage
• chaff
• mockery
• derision
• ridicule
• irony
• jeering
• raillery
• Rally Banter
• satirize
• taunt
• mock
• deride
• joke
• twit
• Sarcasm
• Gibe
• jeer
• satire
• sardonicism

Related words: (words related to CHAFF)

• SARCASM
  A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest. The sarcasms of those critics who imagine our art to be a matter of inspiration. Sir J. Reynolds. Syn. -- Satire;
• RIDICULER
  One who ridicules.
• CHAFFERY
  Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
• TAUNTER
  One who taunts.
• BADINAGE
  Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." Warburton.
• CHAFFER
  1. To buy or sell; to trade in. He chaffered chairs in which churchmen were set. Spenser. 2. To exchange; to bandy, as words. Spenser.
• SARCASMOUS
  Sarcastic. "Sarcasmous scandal." Hubidras.
• CHAFFINCH
  A bird of Europe , having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
• JEERER
  A scoffer; a railer; a mocker.
• SATIRE
  a dish filled with various kinds of fruits, food composed of various ingredients, a mixture, a medley, fr. satur full of food, sated, fr. sat, satis, enough: cf. F. satire. See Sate, Sad, a., and 1. A composition, generally poetical, holding up
• DERIDER
  One who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer.
• RALLY
  To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
• TAUNTING
  from Taunt, v. Every kind of insolent and taunting reflection. Burke.
• BANTER
  1. To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity. Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered
• BANTERER
  One who banters or rallies.
• JEER
  A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery. Midas, exposed to all their jeers, Had lost his art, and kept his ears. Swift.
• CHAFFERN
  A vessel for heating water. Johnson.
• IRONY
  1. Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist. 2. A sort of humor, ridicule, or light sarcasm, which adopts a mode of speech the meaning of which is contrary to the literal sense of the words.
• JEERS
  See
• SATIRIZE
  To make the object of satire; to attack with satire; to censure with keenness or severe sarcasm. It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. Swift.
• SUTURALLY
  In a sutural manner.
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• PASTORALLY
  1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.
• ORALLY
  1. In an oral manner. Tillotson. 2. By, with, or in, the mouth; as, to receive the sacrament orally. Usher.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• LITERALLY
  1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh. 2. With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally.
• CHORALLY
  In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony.
• SCRIPTURALLY
  In a scriptural manner.
• DEXTRALLY
  (adv. Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally.
• NEUTRALLY
  In a neutral manner; without taking part with either side; indifferently.