chaffy

American  

[chaf-ee, chah-fee] / ˈtʃæf i, ˈtʃɑ fi /

adjective

chaffier, chaffiest

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

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Other Word Forms

• chaffiness
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of chaffy

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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

chaffy chaffiest

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

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Flowers without chaffy glumes, the perianth none or reduced to bristles or sepal-like scales; flowers often monœcious or diœcious; carpels solitary or united.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Perianth not glumaceous or chaffy; flowers not in dense heads.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Spikes tawny or brown, not elongated, very densely aggregated into a continuous globose somewhat chaffy head; perigynium ovate or ovate-lanceolate, nerveless or nearly so, mostly thin in texture.—Sp.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

The outer pappus of very small chaffy bristles, much shorter than the inner of copious capillary bristles.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

What a rivalry must exist among the Chaffey Brothers as to who shall be the chaffiest and the wheatiest of the family!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 11, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

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