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Chaff

noun

Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds. Synonyms: husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble.

Foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure.

verb

(past & past part. chaffed; pres. part. chaffing)

Be silly or tease one another. Synonyms: banter, jolly, josh, kid.

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"Chaff" Quotes from Famous Books

... good a fellow not to put up with a little mild chaff of that sort. He looked at the horizon, where the faint streaks of another dawn were beginning ...

— The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley • Louis Tracy

... down with all his eager blood hot within him, by men as hot-blooded as himself. But once when the old doctor's eye caught the up-turned, straining gaze of the father Darley, seeking with all his soul to find a grain of holy comfort in the chaff of words, his conscience smote him. Had he nothing to say that should calm anger and revenge with spiritual power? no breath of the comforter to soothe repining into resignation? But again the discord between the laws of man and the laws of Christ ...

— Sylvia's Lovers, Vol. I • Elizabeth Gaskell

... trilobites are here—and with about as much chance of reappearing as mastodons as humanity has of reproducing those antique horrors. The fragments of witch-madness and star-faith may be still raked in tolerably perfect lumps out of the mire or chaff of mankind; but I do not think, young lady, that you will ever be accused of riding on a broom, though you unquestionably had an ancestress, somewhere before or after Hengist, who enjoyed the reputation of understanding ...

— Continental Monthly , Vol I, Issue I, January 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire: 17 whose fan is in his hand, thoroughly to cleanse his threshing-floor, and to gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn up with ...

— The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition • Charles R. Erdman

... shall lie like sheaves upon our fields; the ruins of your castles fly like chaff beneath the ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

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