Definition of chaff

• n. - The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.
• n. - Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.
• n. - Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
• n. - Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
• n. - The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower.
• v. i. - To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
• v. t. - To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.