| Pronunciation: | | 'chafee
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| Matching Terms: | | chaff, chaffer, chafferer, chaffern, chaffery, chaffinch, chaffing, chaffless, chafflike, chaffweed
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- [adj] of no value; "an empty chaffy book by a foolish chaffy fellow"
- [adj] abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff
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| | Synonyms: | | chafflike, worthless |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Chaff"y\, a.
1. Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.
Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail.
--Coleridge.
2. Light or worthless as chaff.
Slight and chaffy opinion. --Glanvill.
3. (Bot.)
(a) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.
(b) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under
surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some
composite flowers.
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