Chaffy

Quick meaning: Chaffy is an adjective meaning Like or containing chaff.

Meaning

Like or containing chaff.

More Meanings

1. (agriculture) (of an ear of corn/maize) Having imperfectly developed kernels that are not tightly compressed against each other.
2. (colloquial, obsolete) Full of banter, ridicule or badinage.
3. (botany) (of bracts, flower head receptacles, scales on cones or catkins) Resembling chaff: papery, husk-like; not fleshy, leafy or herbaceous.
4. (obsolete) Of as little value or substance as chaff; worthless.

Example Sentences

He chewed the chaffy end of a wheat stalk.

The burning, pungent scent of newly threshed wheat and a chaffy dust enveloped the village.

[…] thou ly’st, and art / A very theefe in love, a Chaffy Lord / Nor worth the name of villaine:

He would talk for an hour; then he would half-draw, and talk again, and often blow his horn when there was no manner of occasion—always so chaffy.

Word Forms

• chaffier
• chaffiest

Synonyms for chaffy

Depending on context, synonyms include strawlike, two-bit, valueless, bastardly, blown, cacky.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chafflike, worthless, acerose, paleous, acerous, chafesome.

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