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How to pronounce “chaff”
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Pronunciation guide for chaff
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of chaff with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Lapham's Quartely
And of course that's true, but it also seems true that the wheat to chaff ratios over time
- Definition summary
- The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce chaff
Lapham's Quartely
And of course that's true, but it also seems true that the wheat to chaff ratios over time
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “chaff”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
- Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
- (figurative) Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
- Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
- (military) Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.
- [Verb]
- (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.
- (transitive) To cut up (straw or hay) for use as cattle feed.
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