The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chaffy \Chaff"y\, a.
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Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.
Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail.
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Light or worthless as chaff.
Slight and chaffy opinion.
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(Bot.)
Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.
Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers.
Wiktionary
a. Like or containing chaff.
WordNet
adj. abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff [syn: chafflike]
of no value; "an empty chaffy book by a foolish chaffy fellow"
Usage examples of "chaffy".
Myra Sands had made up her mind to call Art and Rachael Chaffy at their dorm.
The wheezing was still present, but the height of his house in Petra camp had meant some relief from the chaffy dust.
Did Octavian have asthma, it makes everything that happened to him during that campaign in Macedonia logical, including his fleeing to the sea breezes and cleaner air of the salt marshes while dry ground was fogged by a suffocating pall of chaffy dust.
Hops, such as come into the market, are the chaffy capsules of the seeds, and turn brown early in the autumn.
But they was hypocrites and he a very light chaffy man, and the way was too strait for him.
Art and Rachael Chaffy, had been Cols. And the second couple, Stuart and Mrs.
Arthur, Flash Bob, Young Brummy, Lardy, Bumper, Old Tacks, Jo at Thomson's, Short-pipe Tommy, Boy Dick, Chaffy Sam Coppock,' and others equally suggestive.
But, talking of a high chair,--when you say those chaffy things in a voice like Jane's, and just as Jane would have said them--oh, my wig!
It is frequent in cornfields and so remarkably like the Corn Chamomile (Anthemis arvensis) that it is often difficult to distinguish it from that plant, but it is not ranked among the true Chamomiles by botanists because it does not possess the little chaffy scales or bracts between its florets.