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chaffy (comparative chaffier, superlative chaffiest)

1. Like or containing chaff.
   • 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan‎:

     A mighty fountain […] / Amid whose swift half-intermitted Burst / Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, / Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:

   • 1940, Mikhail Sholokhov, chapter 6, in Stephen Garry, transl., The Don Flows Home to the Sea‎, section 1, pages 44-45:

     The burning, pungent scent of newly threshed wheat and a chaffy dust enveloped the village.

   • 2016, Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing, Penguin Books (2017), page 72:

     He chewed the chaffy end of a wheat stalk.

2. (botany) (of bracts, flower head receptacles, scales on cones or catkins) Resembling chaff: papery, husk-like; not fleshy, leafy or herbaceous.
3. (agriculture) (of an ear of corn/maize) Having imperfectly developed kernels that are not tightly compressed against each other.
4. (obsolete) Of as little value or substance as chaff; worthless.

   Synonyms: strawlike, two-bit, valueless; see also Thesaurus:worthless

   • 1634, John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, “Act 3”, in The Two Noble Kinsmen‎, page 36:

     […] thou ly’st, and art / A very theefe in love, a Chaffy Lord / Nor worth the name of villaine:

   • 1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter 15, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing‎, page 137:

     […] the most slight and chaffy opinion, if at a great remove from the present age, contracts such an esteem and veneration, that it out-weighs what is infinitly more ponderous and rational, of a modern date.

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From chaff +‎ -y

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chaffy (comparative chaffier, superlative chaffiest)

1. (colloquial, obsolete) Full of banter, ridicule or badinage. [mid-19 to 20 century.]
   • 1859, Henry Hall Dixon (as “The Druid”), chapter 1, in Silk and Scarlet‎, pages 58-59:

     He would talk for an hour; then he would half-draw, and talk again, and often blow his horn when there was no manner of occasion—always so chaffy.

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