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Word entry · 5 letters

chaff

Best crossword clue

"Grain husks"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /t͡ʃæf/Part of speech verb, nounSorted acffhStarts with CEnds with F1 cluesCommon crossword word
1C2H3A4F5F

Definitions

  1. be silly or tease one another

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • To separate out the chaff, early cultures tossed baskets of grain into the air and let the wind blow away the lighter chaff.
  • So take the corn and leave the chaff behind.
  • In the passage outside the door, the threshers, who had done their day's work, were stamping the snow off their feet before they came in, - their hair full of chaff.

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