01 a. Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.
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Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.“Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail.” — Coleridge.
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Light or worthless as chaff.“Slight and chaffy opinion.” — Glanvill.
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Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.(Bot.)