chaffs
Pokes gentle fun
Chaffs is the third-person singular of chaff, which has two distinct meanings.
The noun chaff is the husks of grain separated during threshing—worthless material sorted from what's valuable: separating the wheat from the chaff.
The verb chaff means to tease good-naturedly: He chaffs his colleagues about their coffee addiction.
threshing
Extracting grain from stalks
barley · oats · rye · straw · husk · bran · shuck · shell · cereal · spelt
ribbing
Affectionate verbal teasing
badinage · needling · taunting · mocking · gibing · twitting · razzing · roasting · goading · bantering
- separate the wheat from the chaffExtract what matters
- sort the wheat from the chaffSeparate useful from useless