The boss said this group is a real mixed bag. I wonder if he places me with the wheat or the chaff.
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Chaff
//t͡ʃæf//
Synonyms for "chaff" (234 found)
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137 translations across 56 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- byk noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- λέπυρον noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- ἄχυρον noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Arabic
1 entries- هَشِيم noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Armenian
2 entries- դարման noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- հարդ noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Belarusian
2 entries- мякі́на noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- пало́ва noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Bulgarian
4 entries- закачка noun (light jesting talk)
- пля́ва noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- пля́ва noun (excess or unwanted material)
- закачам се verb (to use idle language to ridicule)
Catalan
1 entries- pallús noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 秕糠 noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- 穀殼 /谷壳 noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- 穀糠 /谷糠 noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- 糠 noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Cimbrian
1 entries- bülla noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Czech
1 entries- pleva noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Danish
1 entries- avne noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Dutch
3 entries- kaf noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- kaf noun (excess or unwanted material)
- plagen verb (to make fun of)
Finnish
4 entries- akana noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- akanat noun (excess or unwanted material)
- irvailu noun (light jesting talk)
- ruumen noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
French
2 entries- bale noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- balle noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Galician
4 entries- caño noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- coaño noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- coaño noun (straw or hay cut up for cattle food)
- coaño noun (excess or unwanted material)
German
4 entries- Düppel noun (loose material dropped from aircraft to interfere with radar)
- Kaff noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- Spelze noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- Spreu noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Hebrew
1 entries- מוץ noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Hungarian
3 entries- korpa noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- pelyva noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- szecska noun (straw or hay cut up for cattle food)
Ido
2 entries- palio noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- moketar verb (to make fun of)
Indonesian
1 entries- sekam noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Irish
2 entries- cáith noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- lóchán noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Italian
2 entries- crusca noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- pula noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Japanese
4 entries- もみがら noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- 滓 noun (excess or unwanted material)
- 籾殻 noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- からかう verb (to use idle language to ridicule)
Kazakh
3 entries- кебек noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- топан noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- қауыз noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Korean
1 entries- 왕겨 noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Latin
2 entries- apluda noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- palea noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Kuef noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Macedonian
1 entries- плева noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Malayalam
3 entries- ഉമി noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- പതിര് noun (excess or unwanted material)
- വയ്ക്കോൽ noun (straw or hay cut up for cattle food)
Maltese
1 entries- karfa noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Manchu
1 entries- ᠠᡵᠠ noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Māori
4 entries- pāpapa noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- pāpapa noun (straw or hay cut up for cattle food)
- tiawhe noun (straw or hay cut up for cattle food)
- whakatara noun (light jesting talk)
Occitan
4 entries- ac noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- balòfa noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- àbet noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- òlva noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Polabian
1 entries- plåvoi noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Polish
2 entries- plewy noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- sieczka noun (straw or hay cut up for cattle food)
Portuguese
2 entries- moinha noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- palha noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Romanian
1 entries- pleavă noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Russian
4 entries- мяки́на noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- отбро́сы noun (excess or unwanted material)
- пле́вел noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- поло́ва noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Sanskrit
1 entries- पलाव noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- càth noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- pleva noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- pleva noun (excess or unwanted material)
- pljeva noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- pljeva noun (excess or unwanted material)
Slovak
1 entries- plevy noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Slovene
1 entries- pleva noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Spanish
4 entries- bagazo noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- barcia noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- paja noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- paja noun (excess or unwanted material)
Swahili
2 entries- wishwa noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- wishwa noun (excess or unwanted material)
Swedish
1 entries- agn noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Tamil
1 entries- உமி noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Thai
1 entries- แกลบ noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Tocharian B
1 entries- pīsäl noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Turkish
1 entries- kepek noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Ukrainian
2 entries- поло́ва noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- сі́чка noun (straw or hay cut up for cattle food)
Uyghur
2 entries- توپان noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
- كىپەك noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Vietnamese
1 entries- trấu noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Welsh
1 entries- manus noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
West-Frisian
1 entries- tsjêf noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
White Hmong
1 entries- npluag noun (inedible parts of grain plant)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
Old birds are not caught with chaff.
Source: tatoeba (1728406)
That person's so stingy that he won't even let the mouse have the chaff.
Source: tatoeba (2353505)
You really are the chaff of humanity.
Source: tatoeba (5272721)
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