CHAFFY

chaffy

(adjective) value; “an empty chaffy book by a foolish chaffy fellow”

chaffy, chafflike

(adjective) abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

chaffy (comparative chaffier, superlative chaffiest)

Like or containing chaff.

Source: Wiktionary


Chaff"y, a.

1. Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail. Coleridge.

2. Light or worthless as chaff. Slight and chaffy opinion. Glanvill.

3. (Bot.) (a) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales. (b) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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