chaff

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (uncountable, usually) The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
2. (uncountable, usually) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
3. (figuratively, uncountable, usually) Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
4. (uncountable, usually) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
5. (uncountable, usually) Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
2. (transitive) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language.
3. (transitive) To cut up (straw or hay) for use as cattle feed.

Conceptes

baleigs

boll

balejadures

pellofa

fer broma

bromejar

pallús

Sinònims

husk

bran

banter

josh

tease

straw

kid

🧒

husks

shuck

make fun of

mock

rope

🪢

deride

hull

stalk

stubble

jolly

ridicule

jest

rice husk

rubbish

joke

🤣

shell

🐚

sneer

laugh at

window

🪟

poke fun at

razz

refuse

rib

jape

jeer

Josh

playful tal

annoy

mean person

rice husks

sport

play a practical joke

paddy husk

rice-husk

smallest grain

empty glume

play a trick

antics

badinage

bawl

covering

culm

fun

Traduccions

balle

Spreu

kaf

pula

loppa

debulho

lolla

palea

Kaff

paillette

Spelze

taquiner

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/t͡ʃæf/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: chaf

Heretat de anglès antic: ċeaf

Cognat amb escocès: caff

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: Sääf

Cognat amb frisó occidental: tsjêf

Cognat amb neerlandès: kaf

Cognat amb alemany: Kaff

In summary

From Middle English chaf, from Old English ċeaf, from Proto-West Germanic *kaf. Cognate with Scots caff, Saterland Frisian Sääf, West Frisian tsjêf, Dutch kaf, German Low German Kaff, regional German Kaff.