Chaffy

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chaffy \Chaff"y\, a.
     1. Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.
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              Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail.
                                                    --Coleridge.


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     2. Light or worthless as chaff.
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              Slight and chaffy opinion.            --Glanvill.
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     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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  chaffy
       adj 1: abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of
              chaff [syn: {chafflike}]
       2: of no value; "an empty chaffy book by a foolish chaffy
          fellow"