Chaff

Noun

 * 1) The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
 * 2) By extension, any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
 * 3) Loose material dropped from aircraft specifically to interfere with radar detection.

Verb

 * 1)  To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
 * 2)  To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.

Adjectives for Chaff
mocking; antiquarian; absurd.

Verbs for Chaff
bear up—; beat out—; drive away—; fan— flay out—; gather—; pick from—; scatter— separate from—; sift out—; weed out— winnow—; wipe away—; —flies away.

Adverbs for Chaff
banteringly; unmercifully; considerably; mockingly; excessively; humiliatingly; boisterously; bitterly; coquettishly; hostilely; enigmatically; frivolously.

Derived terms

 * separate the wheat from the chaff

Thesaurus
scraps, scum, shadow, shards, shavings, shell, shuck, skin, slack, slag, slam, slap at, slop, slops, small beer, small change, sneer, sneer at, sordes, sponge, sport, spume, straw, stubble, stump, survival, sweepings, swill, swinish multitude, swipe, tares, taunt, tease, teasing, thistledown, tinfoil, trace, trash, trifles, trivia, trumpery, twit, twitting, vermin, vestige, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds, window, afterglow, afterimage, air, aluminum foil, badinage, balance, banter, bark, barrack, bones, bran, bric-a-brac, bubble, butt, butt end, candle ends, capsule, case, cattle, chicken feed, chickenshit, chip, cobweb, cork, corn shuck, cornhusk, culm, cut at, deadwood, debris, details, detritus, dig at, dishwater, down, draff, dregs, dregs of society, dump on, dust, end, ether, exchange, fag end, fairy, feather, filings, fleer, flout, flue, fluff, foam, fooling, fooling around, fossil, froth, fun, fuzz, garbage, gash, gibe, gimcrackery, give-and-take, good-natured banter, gossamer, harmless teasing, haze, hogwash, holdover, hull, husk, husks, jab, jab at, jacket, jape, jeer, jest, jive, joke, joking, jolly, josh, joshing, kid, kidding, kidding around, knickknackery, leavings, lees, leftovers, minutiae, mock, mote, needle, odds and ends, offal, offscourings, offscum, orts, palea, parings, peanuts, peel, persiflage, pleasantry, pod, pooh, pooh-pooh, potsherds, put down, put on, raff, rag, ragging, rags, rail at, raillery, rally, rallying, rank out, raspings, razz, refuse, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, revile, rib, ride, ridicule, riffraff, rind, roach, roast, rubbish, ruins, rump, sawdust, scoff, scourings, scout, scrap iron,

Etymology
ceaf; akin to West Frisian tsjêf, Dutch kaf, German Kaff.

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian: դարման,
 * Bulgarian: плява
 * Croatian:
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 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew:


 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: мякина
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: barcia, bagazo
 * Swahili:
 * West Frisian:


 * Bulgarian: плява
 * Croatian:
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 * Finnish:
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Verb

 * Finnish:, vinoilla


 * Finnish:, vinoilla