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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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"