What does "chaffy" mean?
Chaffy: Light or worthless as chaff. Slight and chaffy opinion. Glanvill.
Additional senses
- 2.(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.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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