Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Given to chaffing; bantering; ironical
- Like chaff; full of chaff.
- In botany, furnished with chaff, as the receptacle in some compound flowers; paleaceous.
- Figuratively, light; frivolous; unstable.
- noun A chaffinch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.
- adjective Light or worthless as chaff.
- adjective Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.
- adjective Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers.
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- adjective Like or containing
chaff .
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- adjective abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff
- adjective value
Etymologies
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Examples
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How 'chaffy' and frivolous this gay world of London appeared to these first Publishers, consumed with the burning eagerness of their mission, the following description shows.
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It went to my heart to oppose her in any wish; and also this kind of chaffy opposition might pain her.
The Lady of the Shroud Bram Stoker 1879
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Badawi (vol.v. 98), with its reminiscence of “chaffy”
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He was as chaffy as he was sixty years ago, too, and swore the Archbishop and
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Most of the recent improved varieties from breeding programs in Africa yield grain that is poorly developed, headbug damaged, and chaffy when harvested from stressed environments.
Chapter 27 1996
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Also, small seeds and lightweight, chaffy seeds are more likely to drift in the wind, so they are harder to target during the drop.
1 Introduction 1981
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By the side of it a man was setting out on an eating-stand a half-eaten ham, chaffy rolls and pies yellow with age.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various
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Nut kernels that are poorly filled are often hollow, shrunken, shriveled, and chaffy.
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The words of praise he gives his memory are like golden grains amid the chaffy _verbiage_ with which he defends himself.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various
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Palate: = hypopharynx; q.v. Paleace: chaff or chaffy: = paleaceous.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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