English Explanatory Dictionary

chaffy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Like or containing chaff.
  2. (of bracts, flower head receptacles, scales on cones or catkins) Resembling chaff: papery, husk-like; not fleshy, leafy or herbaceous.
  3. (of an ear of corn/maize) Having imperfectly developed kernels that are not tightly compressed against each other.
  4. Of as little value or substance as chaff; worthless.
adj
  1. Full of banter, ridicule or badinage.

Word forms

chaffy chaffier chaffiest

Etymology

From chaff + -y.

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

Related words

scarious

Derived words

chaffily chaffiness
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