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chaffy¹

adjective chaffier · chaffiest

  1. Like or containing chaff. A mighty fountain […] / Amid whose swift half-intermitted Burst / Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, / Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:
  2. (of bracts, flower head receptacles, scales on cones or catkins) Resembling chaff: papery, husk-like; not fleshy, leafy or herbaceous.
  3. (of an ear of corn/maize) Having imperfectly developed kernels that are not tightly compressed against each other.
  4. obsolete Of as little value or substance as chaff; worthless. […] thou ly’st, and art / A very theefe in love, a Chaffy Lord / Nor worth the name of villaine:

    Similar: strawlike, two-bit, valueless, bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious, cruddy, cullionly, draffish

chaffy²

adjective chaffier · chaffiest

  1. archaic, colloquial Full of banter or badinage; joking, playful. He would talk for an hour; then he would half-draw, and talk again, and often blow his horn when there was no manner of occasion—always so chaffy.

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@misc{chaffy_2026,
  title = {chaffy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chaffy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}