Meaning

Like or containing chaff..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

A mighty fountain […] / Amid whose swift half-intermitted Burst / Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, / Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:

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

He chewed the chaffy end of a wheat stalk.

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

[…] the most slight and chaffy opinion, if at a great remove from the present age, contracts such an esteem and veneration, that it out-weighs what is infinitly more ponderous and rational, of a modern date.

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

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When Should You Use Chaffy?

Use chaffy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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