the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.
adj. Light or worthless as chaff.
adj.
adj. Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.
adj. Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Like chaff; full of chaff.
In botany, furnished with chaff, as the receptacle in some compound flowers; paleaceous.
Figuratively, light; frivolous; unstable.
Given to chaffing; bantering; ironical
n. A chaffinch.
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adj. abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff
adj. value
Word Usage
"How 'chaffy' and frivolous this gay world of London appeared to these first Publishers, consumed with the burning eagerness of their mission, the following description shows."