Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant. · Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. · Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless. · 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 cut up (straw or hay) for use as cattle feed.
From Middle English chaf, from Old English ċeaf, from Proto-West Germanic *kaf. Cognate with Scots caff, Saterland Frisian Sääf, West Frisian tsjêf, Dutch kaf, German Low German Kaff, regional German Kaff.
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