About The Word Chaffy
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Chaffy
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What's The Definition Of Chaffy?
[adj] of no value; "an empty chaffy book by a foolish chaffy fellow"
[adj] abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff Synonyms | Synonyms for Chaffy: chafflike | worthless Related Terms | Find terms related to Chaffy: See Also | Chaffy In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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