noun, verb
noun [U]
1 the outer covering of the seeds of grain such as wheat, which is separated from the grain before it is eaten
2 STRAW (= the dried stems of wheat) and HAY (= dried grass) cut up as food for cows
IDIOMS see WHEAT
verb [VN] (old-fashioned or formal) to make jokes about sb in a friendly way
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for chaff is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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