Inedible vs Chaff - What's the difference?
inedible | chaff |
not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat
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.
As nouns the difference between inedible and chaff
is that inedible is anything inedible; that which is not a foodstuff while chaff is the inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.As a adjective inedible
is not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat.As a verb chaff is
to use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.inedible
English
Adjective
(-)Antonyms
* ediblechaff
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.