Definition of Chaff

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Definition of Chaff

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.

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Chaff Quotations

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Elbert Hubbard

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
Adlai E. Stevenson

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Adlai E. Stevenson

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Christian Nestell Bovee

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.
Dean Stanley

Chaff Translations

chaff in German is Spreu
chaff in Italian is loppa
chaff in Latin is palea
chaff in Swedish is agnar

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