adj
Meaning 1
Like or containing chaff.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
chaffy
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CMU ARPABET: CH AE1 F IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
(of bracts, flower head receptacles, scales on cones or catkins) Resembling chaff: papery, husk-like; not fleshy, leafy or herbaceous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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adj
Meaning 3
(of an ear of corn/maize) Having imperfectly developed kernels that are not tightly compressed against each other.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
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adj
Meaning 4
Of as little value or substance as chaff; worthless.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: strawlike, two-bit, valueless, bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious, cruddy, cullionly, draffish, draffy, dreckish, drecky, duffing, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, for the birds, fucking, garbagey, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goodless, ineffectual, invaluable, jabberwocky, junky, mouldy, mucid, naughty, no-account, no good / no-good, nonvaluable, not worth a damn, not worth a dime, not worth a plug nickel, not worth a brass farthing, not worth a cent, not worth a cress, not worth a curse, not worth a Continental, not worth a farthing, not worth hell room, not worth a nickel, not worth a penny, not worth salt, not worth a whistle, nought, of no value, pissass, punk, putid, rubbishly, rubbishy, sixpenny, scabbed, screwy, scummy, shand, shit, shitey, shitstained, shitty-ass, sorry-ass, suckworthy, tenth-rate, toshy, trinkety, triobolar, tripy, unappreciated, unvaluable, vain, worthless, worth nothing, wutless
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adj
Meaning 5
Full of banter, ridicule or badinage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, obsolete
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adjective
Meaning 6
abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: chafflike
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adjective satellite
Meaning 7
value
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an empty chaffy book by a foolish chaffy fellow
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History
Etymology
From chaff + -y.