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

A monstrous form occurs in Maine, having a chaffy receptacle and the flowers turned to tufts of chaffy paleæ.

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

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 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

Fronds mostly chaffy, woolly, or pulverulent, rarely smooth.

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