Crossword-Solution: CHAFF
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Chaff | n. | The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc. |
| Chaff | n. | Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything. |
| Chaff | n. | Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. |
| Chaff | n. | Light jesting talk; banter; raillery. |
| Chaff | n. | The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower. |
| Chaff | v. i. | To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter. |
| Chaff | v. t. | To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CHAFF (5)
While thus he spake, th’ Angelic Squadron bright Turnd fierie red, sharpning in mooned hornes Thir Phalanx, and began to hemm him round With ported Spears, as thick as when a field Of _Ceres_ ripe for harvest waving bends Her bearded Grove of ears, which way the wind Swayes them; the careful Plowman doubting stands Least on the threshing floore his hopeful sheaves Prove chaff.
But when the war was over, he only allowed him chaff to eat and made him carry heavy loads of wood, subjecting him to much slavish drudgery and ill-treatment.
The Belgian officer, success having crowned his efforts, was in good humor, and inclined to chaff his prisoners about the ease with which they had been captured; but from Tarzan of the Apes he elicited no response.
The favour was too much to bear; in an instant the barrier of dust and chaff that had stood surprisingly long, went to the winds, and Saint Antoine had got him! It was known directly, to the furthest confines of the crowd.
Besides, I owed you a little mystification, Lestrade, for your chaff in the morning.” “Well, sir, you certainly got equal with me on that.
Quotes with CHAFF (3)
Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then w…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 79 times in crossword archives (1953–2024).