chaffy

[ chaf-ee, chah-fee ]

adjective

, chaff·i·er, chaff·i·est.

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

Other Words From

• chaffi·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of chaffy¹

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

Example Sentences

Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Literature

It starred “Chaffy,” the same chaff launcher anthropomorphized into a bunny rabbit, complete with mortar tubes for ears.

From The New Yorker

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

From Project Gutenberg

Pistils 3–8, stipitate; seeds flattened laterally, covered with chaffy scales, in one row in the membranaceous pods; style awl-shaped; stigma minute.

From Project Gutenberg