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chaff 音标拼音: [tʃ'æf] n. 谷壳,糠,揶揄
vt.
vi. 开玩笑,戏弄 谷壳,糠,揶揄开玩笑,戏弄 chaff n 1: material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds [ synonym: { chaff}, { husk}, { shuck}, { stalk}, { straw}, { stubble}] 2: foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure v 1: be silly or tease one another; " After we relaxed, we just kidded around" [ synonym: { kid}, { chaff}, { jolly}, { josh}, { banter}] Chaff \ Chaff\, n. [ AC. ceaf; akin to D. kaf, G. kaff.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc. [ 1913 Webster] So take the corn and leave the chaff behind. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] Old birds are not caught with caff. -- Old Proverb. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything. [ 1913 Webster] The chaff and ruin of the times. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. [ 1913 Webster] By adding chaff to his corn, the horse must take more time to eat it. In this way chaff is very useful. -- Ywatt. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Light jesting talk; banter; raillery. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Bot.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Composit[ ae], as the sunflower. -- Gray. [ 1913 Webster] { Chaff cutter}, a machine for cutting, up straw, etc., into " chaff" for the use of cattle. [ 1913 Webster]
Chaff \ Chaff\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Chaffed}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Chaffing}.] To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter. [ 1913 Webster]
Chaff \ Chaff\, v. t. To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz. [ 1913 Webster] Morgan saw that his master was chaffing him. -- Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster] A dozen honest fellows . . . chaffed each other about their sweethearts. -- C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster] 198 Moby Thesaurus words for " chaff": 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, 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 |
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