chaffy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff
    chafflike.
  2. adjective satellite value
    • an empty chaffy book by a foolish chaffy fellow

WordNet


Chaff"y adjective
Definitions
  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 1913