chaff

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /t͡ʃæf/|/t͡ʃɑːf/    美 /t͡ʃæf/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant. uncountable,usually
    — To separate out the chaff, early cultures tossed baskets of grain into the air and let the wind blow away the lighter chaff.
  2. Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. uncountable,usually
    — By adding chaff to his corn, the horse must take more time to eat it, and time is given for the commencement of digestion, before fermentation can occur. In this way chaff is very useful, especially after long fasts.
  3. Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless. figuratively,uncountable,usually
    — the chaff and ruin of the times
  4. Light jesting talk; banter; raillery. uncountable,usually
    — As for Huxter, perfectly at good-humour with himself, and the world, it never entered his mind that he could be disagreeable to anybody; and the little dispute, or “chaff,” as he styled it, of Vauxhall, was a trifle which he did not in the least regard.
  5. Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection. uncountable,usually
动词 v.
  1. To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter. intransitive
  2. To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language. transitive
    — We were talking about it at mess, yesterday, and chaffing Derby Oaks—until he was as mad as a hatter.
  3. To cut up (straw or hay) for use as cattle feed. transitive

词形变化

chaffs plural chaffs present,singular,third-person chaffing participle,present chaffed participle,past chaffed past

词汇关系

衍生词
chaffbag chaff cutter chaff engine chaff flower chaffinch chaffless chafflike chaff tree chaffweed chaffy prickly chaff flower separate the wheat from the chaff sort the wheat from the chaff winnow grain from chaff winnow the wheat from the chaff you can't catch old birds with chaff chaffer
相关词
paleaceous paleous

词源

词源 1
From Middle English chaf, from Old English ċeaf, from Proto-West Germanic *kaf. Cognate with Scots caff, Saterland Frisian Sääf, West Frisian tsjêf, Dutch kaf, German Low German Kaff, regional German Kaff.
词源 2
From Middle English chaf, from Old English ċeaf, from Proto-West Germanic *kaf. Cognate with Scots caff, Saterland Frisian Sääf, West Frisian tsjêf, Dutch kaf, German Low German Kaff, regional German Kaff.
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