chaffy
/tʃˈæfi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.09 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Like or containing chaff.
adj
(of bracts, flower head receptacles, scales on cones or catkins) Resembling chaff: papery, husk-like; not fleshy, leafy or herbaceous.
adj
(of an ear of corn/maize) Having imperfectly developed kernels that are not tightly compressed against each other.
Example Sentences
- "A mighty fountain […] / Amid whose swift half-intermitted Burst / Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, / Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:"
- "The burning, pungent scent of newly threshed wheat and a chaffy dust enveloped the village."
- "He chewed the chaffy end of a wheat stalk."
- "[…] thou ly’st, and art / A very theefe in love, a Chaffy Lord / Nor worth the name of villaine:"
- "[…] 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."
- "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."
Etymology
From chaff + -y.