chaff
1. material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
• Syn:
husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble
• Derivationally related forms:
shuck (for: shuck), husk (for: husk), chaffy
• Hypernyms:
plant material, plant substance
• Hyponyms:
bran
2. foil in thin strips;
ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure
• Derivationally related forms:
chaffy
• Hypernyms:
foil
be silly or tease one another (Freq. 1)
- After we relaxed, we just kidded around
• Syn:
kid, jolly, josh, banter
• Derivationally related forms:
banter (for: banter), jolly (for: jolly)
• Hypernyms:
tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize,
tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s somebody (for: kid)
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