- 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. - Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. - Light jesting talk; banter; raillery. - The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each
flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower.
2 . Chaff
[ v. i.]
- To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to
banter.
3 . Chaff
[ v. t.]
- To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in
ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
Chaff Chaff is radar confusion reflectors, consisting of thin, narrow metallic strips of various lengths and frequency responses, which are used to reflect echoes for confusion purposes.