chaff (n.)
- afterglow
- afterimage
- air
- badinage
- balance
- banter
- bark
- barrack
- bones
- bran
- bric-a-brac
- bubble
- butt
- capsule
- case
- cattle
- chickenshit
- chip
- cobweb
- cork
- cornhusk
- culm
- deadwood
- debris
- details
- detritus
- dishwater
- down
- dregs
- dust
- end
- ether
- exchange
- fairy
- feather
- fleer
- flue
- fluff
- foam
- fooling
- fossil
- froth
- fun
- fuzz
- garbage
- gash
- gibe
- gimcrackery
- give-and-take
- gossamer
- haze
- hogwash
- holdover
- hull
- husk
- jab
- jacket
- jape
- jeer
- jest
- jive
- joke
- jolly
- kid
- knickknackery
- lees
- leftovers
- mock
- mote
- needle
- offal
- orts
- palea
- peanuts
- peel
- persiflage
- pleasantry
- pod
- raff
- rag
- ragging
- raillery
- rally
- rallying
- razz
- refuse
- remainder
- remains
- remnant
- residue
- residuum
- rest
- rib
- ride
- ridicule
- riffraff
- rind
- roach
- roast
- rubbish
- rump
- sawdust
- scoff
- scout
- scraps
- scum
- shadow
- shavings
- shell
- shuck
- skin
- slack
- slag
- slam
- slop
- slops
- sneer
- sponge
- sport
- spume
- straw
- stubble
- stump
- survival
- swill
- swipe
- tares
- taunt
- tease
- teasing
- thistledown
- tinfoil
- trace
- trash
- trivia
- trumpery
- twit
- vermin
- vestige
- wastage
- waste
- weeds
- window
chaff (v.)
- air
- balance
- banter
- bark
- barrack
- bubble
- butt
- capsule
- case
- chip
- cork
- down
- dust
- end
- ether
- exchange
- feather
- fleer
- flout
- fluff
- foam
- froth
- fun
- gash
- gibe
- haze
- hull
- husk
- jab
- jacket
- jeer
- jest
- jive
- joke
- jolly
- josh
- kid
- mock
- mote
- needle
- peel
- pod
- pooh
- pooh-pooh
- rag
- rally
- razz
- refuse
- remainder
- rest
- revile
- rib
- ride
- ridicule
- rind
- roach
- roast
- rubbish
- rump
- scoff
- scout
- scum
- shadow
- shell
- shuck
- skin
- slack
- slag
- slam
- slop
- sneer
- sponge
- sport
- spume
- straw
- stump
- swill
- swipe
- taunt
- tease
- trace
- trash
- twit
- waste
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
As soon
Seek roses in December, ice in June;
Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff;
Believe a woman or an epitaph,
Or any other thing that's false, before
You trust in critics.
Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Sit thee down, chaff-threshing churl! for let me sit where I will, that is the upper end to thee.—Jarvis's translation.
