Chaffed vs Chaffer - What's the difference?
chaffed | chaffer |
(chaff)
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The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
* Dryden
By extension, any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
* Shakespeare
Loose material dropped from aircraft specifically to interfere with radar detection.
Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
* Wyatt
Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
To haggle or barter.
* Dryden
* 1985 , , Kingdom of the Wicked :
To talk much and idly; to chatter.
Bargaining; merchandise.
(agriculture) The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed
* {{quote-book, 2003, William W. Casady, chapter=Grain Harvesting Systems, editor=Dennis R. Heldman, Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering
, passage=A fan blows air through the chaffer to remove lightweight material known as chaff.}}
As verbs the difference between chaffed and chaffer
is that chaffed is (chaff) while chaffer is to haggle or barter.As a noun chaffer is
bargaining; merchandise or chaffer can be (agriculture) the upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed.chaffed
English
Verb
(head)chaff
English
Noun
(-)- To separate out the chaff , early cultures tossed baskets of grain into the air and let the wind blow away the lighter chaff.
- So take the corn and leave the chaff behind.
- There are plenty of good books on the subject, but take care to separate the wheat from the chaff .
- the chaff and ruin of the times
- By adding chaff' to his corn, the horse must take more time to eat it. In this way ' chaff is very useful.
Derived terms
* separate the wheat from the chaffSee also
* branVerb
(en verb)chaffer
English
Etymology 1
From cheap fare .Verb
(en verb)- To chaffer for preferments with his gold.
- But the people looked much like Caleb’s own. They wore dirty robes, chaffered at fruit stalls, spat, scratched.
- (Trench)
Synonyms
* bargain * barter * haggle * negotiateNoun
- (Holished)
Etymology 2
FromNoun
(en noun)citation