chaff : Idioms & Phrases

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Chaff cutter

  • a machine for cutting, up straw, etc., into "chaff" for the use of cattle.
Webster 1913

chiff-chaff

Chiff"-chaff noun
Etymology
So called from its note.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps.
Webster 1913