Word Meanings - THUMMIE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The chiff-chaff.
Related words: (words related to THUMMIE)
- CHAFFERY
Traffic; bargaining. Spenser. - CHIFFONIER; CHIFFONIERE
1. One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker. 2. A receptacle for rags or shreds. 3. A movable and ornamental closet or piece of furniture with shelves or drawers. G. Eliot. - CHAFFER
One who chaffs. - CHAFFINCH
A bird of Europe , having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch. - CHAFFERN
A vessel for heating water. Johnson. - CHAFFING
The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter. - CHIFF-CHAFF
A species of European warbler ; -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps. - CHAFFY
1. Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail. Coleridge. 2. Light or worthless as chaff. Slight and chaffy opinion. Glanvill. Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales. Bearing or covered with dry scales, - CHAFFERER
One who chaffers; a bargainer. - CHIFFON
Any merely ornamental adjunct of a woman's dress, as a bunch of ribbon, lace, etc. 2. A kind of soft gauzy material used for ruches, trimmings, etc. - 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 - CHAFFLESS
Without chaff. - CHAFEWAX; CHAFFWAX
Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.