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Webster 1913 Edition


Chaffy

Chaff′y

,
Adj.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Chaffy

CHAFFY

,
Adj.
Like chaff; full of chaff; light; as, chaffy straws; chaffy opinions.

Definition 2024


chaffy

chaffy

English

Adjective

chaffy (comparative chaffier, superlative chaffiest)

  1. Like or containing chaff.