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

Etymology

Origin of chaffy

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

Example Sentences

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

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

Roughish, especially the leaves, which are disposed to be less narrowly pointed, the upper sometimes entire; rays broadly oblong to linear or oblanceolate; pappus coroniform and chaffy or of 2 or 3 conspicuous teeth.

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 Gray, Asa

Pappus none, or a crown or cup, or of one or two chaffy awns, never capillary, nor of several uniform chaffy scales.—Leaves more commonly opposite.

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 Gray, Asa

Receptacle flat, not chaffy, but beset with short chaffy 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 Gray, Asa

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 Gray, Asa