chaffy

[chaf-ee, chah-fee]

adjective

chaffier, chaffiest 

1. consisting of, covered with, or resembling chaff.

Other Word Forms

• chaffiness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of chaffy¹

First recorded in 1545–55; chaff ¹ + -y ¹

Example Sentences

He nubbed the ears—shelling off the small, chaffy kernels at their tips.

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Rootstocks creeping, branched, often covered with chaffy scales, bearing scattered roundish knobs, to which the stipes are attached by a distinct articulation.

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The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.

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Stem.—Simple; a foot or so high; bearing at summit a crown of large leaves, mixed with many dry, chaffy, persistent bracts.

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In Compositae besides the involucre there are frequently chaffy and setose bracts at the base of each flower, and in Dipsacaceae a membranous tube surrounds each flower.

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