Synonyms of the word

chaff

• n. The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
• n. By extension, any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
• n. Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil, dropped from aircraft specifically to interfere with…
• n. Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
• n. Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
• v. (intransitive) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
• v. (transitive) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to…

bait

• n. Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare,…
• n. Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.
• n. Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.
• n. A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
• n. A light or hasty luncheon.
• v. (transitive) To attract with bait; to entice.
• v. (transitive) To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.
• v. (transitive) To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport.
• v. (transitive) To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To feed and water (a horse or other animal), especially during a journey.
• v. (intransitive) (of a horse or other animal) To take food, especially during a journey.
• v. (intransitive) (of a person) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops…

banter

• n. Good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in banter or playful conversation.
• v. (intransitive) To play or do something amusing.
• v. (transitive) To tease (someone) mildly.
• v. (transitive) To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.
• v. (transitive, US, Southern and Western, colloquial) To challenge to a match.

cod

• n. (obsolete) A small bag or pouch.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A husk or integument; a pod.
• n. (now rare) The scrotum (also in plural).
• n. (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Scotland) A pillow or cushion.
• n. The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua.
• n. The sea fish of the genus Gadus generally, as inclusive of the Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus)and Greenland…
• n. The sea fish of the family Gadidae which are sold as "cod", as haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) and…
• n. (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other unrelated fish which are similarly important to regional fisheries,…
• n. (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other unrelated fish which resemble the Atlantic cod, as the rock…
• n. A joke or an imitation.
• n. A stupid or foolish person.
• adj. Having the character of imitation; jocular. (now usually attributive, forming mostly compound adjectives).
• v. (slang, transitive, dialectal) To attempt to deceive or confuse.

foil

• n. A very thin sheet of metal.
• n. (uncountable) Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
• n. A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
• n. (figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the…
• n. (figuratively) Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
• n. (fencing) A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip.
• n. A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation…
• n. (heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf.
• n. Shortened form of hydrofoil.
• n. Shortened form of aerofoil/airfoil.
• v. To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
• v. To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
• v. To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
• v. (obsolete) To tread underfoot; to trample.
• n. Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
• n. One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
• n. (hunting) The track of an animal.
• v. (mathematics) To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
• v. (obsolete) To defile; to soil.

husk

• n. The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating…
• n. Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something.
• n. The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
• v. (transitive) To remove husks from.
• n. An infection in cattle caused by a species of Dictyocaulus or lungworm.
• v. (intransitive) To cough, clear one's throat.
• v. (transitive) To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.

jolly

• adj. Full of high and merry spirits; jovial.
• n. (Britain, dated) A pleasure trip or excursion.
• n. (slang, dated) A marine in the English navy.
• adv. (Britain, dated) very, extremely.
• v. (transitive) To amuse or divert.

josh

• n. Good-natured banter.
• v. (transitive) To tease someone in a kindly or friendly fashion.
• v. (intransitive) To make or exchange good-natured jokes.

kid

• n. A young goat.
• n. Of a female goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid.
• n. Kidskin.
• n. (uncountable) The meat of a young goat.
• n. A young antelope.
• n. (informal) a child (usually), teenager, or young adult; a juvenile.
• n. (colloquial) An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
• n. (nautical) A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.
• n. (informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular decade or area.
• n. (informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
• n. (used in the vocative) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To make a fool of (someone).
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To make a joke with (someone).
• v. (intransitive) Of a goat, to give birth to kids.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To joke.
• n. A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.

rag

• n. (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
• n. A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
• n. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
• n. A ragged edge in metalworking.
• n. (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
• n. (slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
• n. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
• v. (intransitive) To become tattered.
• n. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
• v. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
• v. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
• v. To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
• v. (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
• v. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
• v. (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
• n. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
• n. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
• n. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
• n. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
• v. (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.

rally

• n. A demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause.
• n. (squash (sport), table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a…
• n. (motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals…
• n. (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
• v. To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
• v. To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight;…
• v. To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
• v. (business, trading) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
• v. To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
• n. Good-humoured raillery.

razz

• n. (poker) A version of seven card stud where the worst poker hand wins (called lowball).
• v. (informal) To tease playfully; to heckle.
• v. (informal) (Newfoundland) To drive an automobile around.

ride

• v. (intransitive, transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle…
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
• v. (transitive, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such…
• v. (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
• v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
• v. (intransitive) To rely, depend (on).
• v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
• v. (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
• v. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
• v. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
• v. (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
• n. An instance of riding.
• n. (informal) A vehicle.
• n. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
• n. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
• n. (Britain) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
• n. (Britain, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
• n. (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.

shuck

• n. The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) A fraud; a scam.
• n. (slang) A phony.
• v. (transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To remove (any outer covering).
• v. (transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax.

stalk

• n. The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
• n. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
• n. Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
• n. (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes…
• n. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
• n. (zoology).
• n. (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
• v. (transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
• v. (transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.^Wp.
• v. (intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
• v. (intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed…
• n. A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
• n. A hunt (of a wild animal).
• v. (intransitive) To walk haughtily.

straw

• n. (countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
• n. (uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively.
• n. (countable) A drinking straw.
• n. A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
• n. (figuratively) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
• adj. Made of straw.
• adj. Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
• adj. (figuratively) Imaginary, but presented as real.

stubble

• n. (countable and uncountable) Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.

tantalise

• v. Alternative spelling of tantalize.

tantalize

• v. (transitive) to tease (someone) by offering something desirable but keeping it out of reach.
• v. (transitive) to bait (someone) by showing something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied.

taunt

• v. to make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner.
• n. A scornful or mocking remark; a jeer or mockery.
• adj. (nautical) Very high or tall.

tease

• v. To separate the fibres of a fibrous material.
• v. To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
• v. To back-comb.
• v. (transitive) To poke fun at.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
• v. (transitive) To entice, to tempt.
• v. (transitive, informal) To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
• n. One who teases.
• n. A single act of teasing.
• n. A cock tease; an exotic dancer; a stripper.

twit

• v. (transitive) To reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease.
• v. (transitive, computing) To ignore or killfile (a user on a bulletin board system).
• n. A reproach, gibe or taunt.
• n. A foolish or annoying person.