The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant. / Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. / (figuratively) Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.

(intransitive) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter. / (transitive) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chaff

A machine for cutting straw or hay into chaff.

plural of chaff engine

(idiomatic, intransitive) To select only that which is of value.

Alternative form of separate the wheat from the chaff

Alternative form of separate the wheat from the chaff

The wisest and the most experienced cannot be easily deceived.

A small passerine bird, Fringilla coelebs, of the finch family, found throughout Europe and eastward to Iran and eastern Mediterranean coastlands.