Hypertext Webster Gateway: "chaffy"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Chaffy \Chaff"y\, a.
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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

chaffy
adj 1: abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of
chaff [syn: {chafflike}]
2: of no value; "an empty chaffy book by a foolish chaffy
fellow"

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