Cat Lover: Mikaela is the first to admit that she's a proud owner of a fat Tabby cat named Muffin. According to the athlete, her four-legged friend loves to sleep all day and beg for food. I really love animals in general, she told NBC Olympics.
The definition of chasten is to restrain, tame or moderate, or to punish or discipline. When you hold back someone's bad behavior and keep it from happening, this is an example of when you chasten.
Definition of chaff. 1  1 : the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain. 2  2 : something comparatively worthless a few kernels of wisdom amid much discursive chaff â Steven Raichlen. 3  3 : the scales borne on the receptacle among the florets in the heads of many composite plants.