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The chiff-chaff.

CHAFFERY
Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
CHIFFONIER; CHIFFONIERE
1. One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker. 2. A receptacle for rags or shreds. 3. A movable and ornamental closet or piece of furniture with shelves or drawers. G. Eliot.
CHAFFER
One who chaffs.
CHAFFINCH
A bird of Europe , having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
CHAFFERN
A vessel for heating water. Johnson.
CHAFFING
The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter.
CHIFF-CHAFF
A species of European warbler ; -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps.
CHAFFY
1. Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail. Coleridge. 2. Light or worthless as chaff. Slight and chaffy opinion. Glanvill. Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales. Bearing or covered with dry scales,
CHAFFERER
One who chaffers; a bargainer.
CHIFFON
Any merely ornamental adjunct of a woman's dress, as a bunch of ribbon, lace, etc. 2. A kind of soft gauzy material used for ruches, trimmings, etc.
CHAFF
The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositæ, as the sunflower. Gray. Chaff cutter, a machine for cutting, up straw, etc., into "chaff" for the use of cattle. (more info) 1. The glumes or husks
CHAFFLESS
Without chaff.
CHAFEWAX; CHAFFWAX
Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.