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chaff
zelfstandig naamwoord
1 chaff
Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds.
synoniemen: husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble.
Roget 643:
unimportance,
insignificance,
nothingness,
immateriality.
triviality,
levity,
frivolity;
paltriness
etc.
adj.;
poverty;
smallness
etc.
32;
vanity
etc.
(uselessness)
645;
matter of indifference
etc.
866;
no object.
nothing,
nothing to signify,
nothing worth speaking of,
nothing particular,
nothing to boast of,
nothing to speak of;
small matter,
no great matter,
trifling matter
etc.
adj.;
mere joke,
mere nothing;
hardly anything;
scarcely anything;
nonentity,
small beer,
cipher;
no great shakes,
peu de chose [Fr.];
child's play,
kinderspiel.
toy,
plaything,
popgun,
paper pellet,
gimcrack,
gewgaw,
bauble,
trinket,
bagatelle,
Rickshaw,
knickknack,
whim-wham,
trifle,
trifles light as air;"
yankee notions [U.S.].
trumpery,
trash,
rubbish,
stuff,
fatras†,
frippery;
leather or prunello;"
chaff,
drug,
froth bubble smoke,
cobweb;
weed;
refuse
etc.
(inutility)
645;
scum
etc.
(dirt)
653.
joke,
jest,
snap of the fingers;
fudge
etc.
(unmeaning)
517;
fiddlestick†,
fiddlestick end†;
pack of nonsense,
mere farce.
straw,
pin,
fig,
button,
rush;
bulrush,
feather,
halfpenny,
farthing,
brass farthing,
doit†,
peppercorn,
jot,
rap,
pinch of snuff,
old son;
cent,
mill,
picayune,
pistareen†,
red cent [U.S.].
minutiae,
details,
minor details,
small fry;
dust in the balance,
feather in the scale,
drop in the ocean,
flea-bite,
molehill.
nine days' wonder,
ridiculus mus [Lat.];
flash in the pan
etc.
(impotence)
158;
much ado about nothing
etc.
(overestimation)
482.
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Roget 856:
ridicule,
derision;
sardonic smile,
sardonic grin;
irrision†;
scoffing
etc.
(disrespect)
929;
mockery,
quiz†,
banter,
irony,
persiflage,
raillery,
chaff,
badinage;
quizzing
etc.
v.;
asteism†.
squib,
satire,
skit,
quip,
quib†,
grin.
parody,
burlesque,
travesty,
travestie†;
farce
etc.
(drama)
599;
caricature.
buffoonery
etc.
(fun)
840;
practical joke;
horseplay.
scorn,
contempt
etc.
930.
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Roget 876:
commonalty,
democracy;
obscurity;
low condition,
low life,
low society,
low company;
bourgeoisie;
mass of the people,
mass of society;
Brown Jones and Robinson;
lower classes,
humbler classes,
humbler orders;
vulgar herd,
common herd;
rank and file,
hoc genus omne [Lat.];
the many,
the general,
the crowd,
the people,
the populace,
the multitude,
the million,
the masses,
the mobility,
the peasantry;
king Mob;
proletariat;
fruges consumere nati [Lat.],
demos,
hoi polloi [Gr.],
great unwashed;
man in the street.
mob;
rabble,
rabble rout;
chaff,
rout,
horde,
canaille;
scum of the people,
residuum of the people,
dregs of the people,
dregs of society;
swinish multitude,
foex populi†;
trash;
profanum vulgus [Lat.],
ignobile vulgus [Lat.];
vermin,
riffraff,
ragtag and bobtail;
small fry.
commoner,
one of the people,
democrat,
plebeian,
republican,
proletary†,
proletaire†,
roturier†,
Mr.
Snooks,
bourgeois,
epicier [Fr.],
Philistine,
cockney;
grisette†,
demimonde.
peasant,
countryman,
boor,
carle†,
churl;
villain,
villein;
terrae filius [Lat.],
son of the land;
serf,
kern†,
tyke,
tike,
chuff†,
ryot†,
fellah;
longshoreman;
swain,
clown,
hind;
clod,
clodhopper;
hobnail,
yokel,
bog-trotter,
bumpkin;
plowman,
plowboy†;
rustic,
hayseed [Slang],
lunkhead [U.S.],
chaw-bacon [Slang],
tiller of the soil;
hewers of wood and drawers of water,
groundling†;
gaffer,
loon,
put,
cub,
Tony Lumpkin†,
looby†,
rube [U.S.],
lout,
underling;
gamin;
rough;
pot-wallopper†,
slubberdegullion†;
vulgar fellow,
low fellow;
cad,
curmudgeon.
upstart,
parvenu,
skipjack†;
nobody,
nobody one knows;
hesterni quirites [Lat.],
pessoribus orti [Lat.];
bourgeois gentilhomme [Fr.],
novus homo [Lat.],
snob,
gent,
mushroom,
no one knows who,
adventurer;
man of straw.
beggar,
gaberlunzie†,
muckworm†,
mudlark†,
sans culotte,
raff†,
tatterdemalion,
caitiff,
ragamuffin,
Pariah,
outcast of society,
tramp,
vagabond,
bezonian†,
panhandler [Slang],
sundowner†,
chiffonnier,
Cinderella,
cinderwench†,
scrub,
jade;
gossoon†.
Goth,
Vandal,
Hottentot,
Zulu,
savage,
barbarian,
Yahoo;
unlicked cub†,
rough diamond†.
barbarousness,
barbarism;
boeotia.
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Nederlands: kaf, stoppel, stro, strohalm, stronk, strootje
Pools: plewa
2 chaff
Foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure.
Pools: sieczka
werkwoord
1 chaff
Be silly or tease one another.
synoniemen: banter, jolly, josh, kid.
Roget 856:
ridicule,
deride,
mock,
taunt;
snigger;
laugh in one's sleeve;
tease
[ridicule lightly],
badinage,
banter,
rally,
chaff,
joke,
twit,
quiz,
roast;
haze [U.S.];
tehee†;
fleer†;
show up.
play upon,
play tricks upon;
fool to the top of one's bent;
laugh at,
grin at,
smile at;
poke fun at.
satirize,
parody,
caricature,
burlesque,
travesty.
turn into ridicule;
make merry with;
make fun of,
make game of,
make a fool of,
make an April fool of†;
rally;
scoff
etc.
(disrespect)
929.
raise a laugh
etc.
(amuse)
840;
play the fool,
make a fool of oneself.
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Nederlands: plagen, badineren
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