Usually means: Husks separated from harvested grains.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. chaff: Merriam-Webster
  2. chaff, chaff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chaff, chaff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chaff: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chaff: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chaff, chaff: Wordnik
  7. chaff: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. chaff: Wiktionary
  9. chaff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chaff: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chaff: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Chaff, chaff: Dictionary.com
  13. chaff: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Chaff (countermeasure), Chaff (disambiguation), Chaff (radar countermeasure), Chaff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Chaff: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. chaff: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. chaff: Rhymezone
  18. Chaff: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. chaff: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Chaff: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. chaff: FreeDictionary.org
  22. chaff: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. chaff: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. chaff: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chaff: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chaff (radar countermeasure), chaff: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. chaff: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chaff: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chaff: Easton Bible
  2. Chaff: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chaff, chaff, chaff: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. chaff: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Explosives (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
  6. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See chaffing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
noun:  Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
noun:  (figurative) Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
noun:  Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
noun:  (military) Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.
verb:  (intransitive) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
verb:  (transitive) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language.
verb:  (transitive) To cut up (straw or hay) for use as cattle feed.

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