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adjective

Chaffy adj.

Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. "Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail."

Light or worthless as chaff. "Slight and chaffy opinion."

(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.

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Etymology of 'Chaffy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chaffy" Quotes from Famous Books

... Rosea. Rose Plantain. In this vegetable monster the bractes, or divisions of the spike, become wonderfully enlarged; and are converted into leaves. The chaffy scales of the calyx in Xeranthemum, and in a species of Dianthus, and the glume in some alpine grasses, and the scales of the ament in the salix rosea, rose willow, grow into leaves; and produce other kinds of monsters. The double flowers ...

— The Botanic Garden. Part II. - Containing The Loves of the Plants. A Poem. - With Philosophical Notes. • Erasmus Darwin

... lineal descendant of Villon, a free and easy fellow, not over nice in the choice or execution of his plans, but inventing new ones after each failure, simply to keep in his hand; not too valiant, except perhaps when in his cups, rather jovial and chaffy, making fun of himself and everybody else besides, no respecter of persons or things, and doomed probably not to die in his bed. Moliere must have encountered many such a man whilst the wars of the Fronde were raging, during his perigrinations in the provinces. ...

— The Blunderer • Moliere

... chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced, Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail; And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to ...

— Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris

Words linked to "Chaffy" : worthless, chaff