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silppu.

chaff (straw or hay cut up for cattle food)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈsilpːu/[ˈs̠ilpːu]
  1. chaff (straw or hay cut up for cattle food)

  2. chaff (loose material dropped from aircraft to interfere with radar)

  3. roughage (rough or coarse material)

Where this word comes from

silp- + -u, note also the dialectal form silpu; possibly influenced by pilppu. Akin to Karelian silppu.

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