What does «paja» mean in Spanish?

• Grass cane after drying and separation from the grain.
• Straw for sipping liquids.
• A small thing.
• The useless and disposable part of a thing. Example: there is a lot of straw in your article.
• Laziness, laziness.
  
  ♦ Used in: Argentina
  
  Examples of use in Spanish: "me da mucha paja hacer la tarea".
  
  
• Masturbation.
  
  ♦ Used in: Argentina
• Fun.
  
  ♦ Used in: Peru
  
  Examples of use in Spanish: "esto es muy paja".
  
  
• (paja mental) Complicated, absurd and overly personal lucubration that only the one who makes it understands it.
  
  ♦ Used in: Spain
  
  Examples of use in Spanish: "todo lo que has dicho no son sino pajas mentales".

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