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chaff

/tʃɑːf/

/tʃæf/

Translations

chaffnoun

chaffs

мякина

The farmer separated the wheat from the chaff.

Фермер отделил пшеницу от мякины.

шелуха

The chaff from the oats was blown away by the wind.

Шелуха от овса была унесена ветром.

Additional translations

пустая болтовня

Synonyms

chaffverb

chaffed

Past Simple

chaffed

Past Participle

chaffing

Gerund

/tʃɑːf/

/tʃæf/

подшучивать

He likes to chaff his friends about their fashion choices.

Он любит подшучивать над своими друзьями по поводу их выбора одежды.

Synonyms

chaffadjective

/tʃɑːf/

/tʃæf/

Used attributively before another noun (e.g., "chaff cutter")

Definitions

chaffnoun

The husks of grains and grasses that are separated during threshing.

The farmer collected the wheat and discarded the chaff.

Worthless things; trash.

Amidst the valuable information, there was a lot of chaff to sift through.

Lighthearted joking or banter.

The friends engaged in some chaff as they waited for the movie to start.

Strips of metal foil or metallised fibre released from an aircraft as a radar countermeasure.

The pilot deployed chaff to confuse the incoming missiles.

Chopped hay or straw used as animal fodder.

The stable hands mixed oats with chaff for the horses.

chaffverb

To tease or make fun of in a good-natured way.

They chaffed him about his new haircut, but he knew it was all in good fun.

To release chaff as a radar countermeasure.

The aircraft chaffed just moments before the enemy radar locked on.

To separate the husks of grain from the kernels; to winnow.

The miller chaffed the grain to prepare it for grinding.

chaffadjective

Relating to, made of, or used for chaff.

The farmer bought a new chaff cutter for the harvest season.