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Chaffy definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CHAFFY, a. Like chaff; full of chaff; light; as, chaffy straws; chaffy opinions.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff [syn: chaffy, chafflike]
2: value; "an empty chaffy book by a foolish chaffy fellow"

Merriam Webster's

adjective see chaff I

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.