chaff
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1. chaff - Noun
2. chaff - Verb
Meaning
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.
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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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.
We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
If you borrow some chaff from the rich man you have to repay him with wheat.
No corn without chaff.
No wheat without chaff.