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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

... strikes me, Thomas Bowling," said he drily, in the chaffy sort of way he adopted sometimes when hauling any of us 'over the coals' for some offence, performing his duty ever of guardian of the peace as lightly as he could make it, "there's some sort o' circumbendibus between this here arm of yourn and the ...

— Young Tom Bowling - The Boys of the British Navy • J.C. Hutcheson

... and Shelley, and by the liberal tone of their own productions. Like most of the lesser writers of that day, they found their way into the popular Keepsakes and Annuals, which Mary accurately describes as 'a chaffy, frivolous, and unsatisfactory style of publication, that only serves to keep a young author in the mind of the public, and to bring in a little cash.' In 1826 Mrs. Howitt was preparing for the press a new volume of poems by herself and her ...

— Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century • George Paston

... off the heads, which fall into the canoe, as they push it along through the rice-beds. In this way they collect a great many bushels in the course of the day. The wild rice is not the least like the rice which your ladyship has eaten; it is thin and covered with a light chaffy husk. The colour of the grain itself is a brownish green, or olive, smooth, shining, and brittle. After separating the outward chaff, the squaws put by a large portion of the clean rice in its natural state for sale; for this they get from a dollar ...

— Lady Mary and her Nurse • Catharine Parr Traill

... enclosing a fine sonnet by William Bell Scott, which I wished him to let me send you for your book. It has not yet been printed. I think I heard of some little chaffy matter between him and you, but, doubtless, you have virtually forgotten all about it. I must say frankly that I think the day when you made the speech he told me of must have been rather a wool-gathering one with you.... I suppose ...

— Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1883 • T. Hall Caine

... at her through the chaffy haze of the August afternoon. It stewed like an apple in the sunshine, and a faint smell of apples came from it, as its great orchard dragged its boughs in the grass. They were reaping the Gate Field close to the house—the hum of the reaper came ...

— Joanna Godden • Sheila Kaye-Smith