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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

... 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

... Botany says of it: 'An ament, or catkin, is an assemblage of flowers composed of scales and stamens or pistils arranged along a common thread-like receptacle, as in the chestnut and willow. It is a kind of calyx, by some classed as a mode of inflorescence (or flowering), and each chaffy scale protects one or more of the stamens or pistils, the whole forming one aggregate flower. The ament is common to forest-trees, as the oak and chestnut, and is also found ...

— Among the Trees at Elmridge • Ella Rodman Church

Words linked to "Chaffy" : worthless