chaffy

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
chaffy
    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"
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Chaffy \Chaff"y\, a.
   1. Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.
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            Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail.
                                                  --Coleridge.
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   2. Light or worthless as chaff.
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            Slight and chaffy opinion.            --Glanvill.
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   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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