chaffy

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Like or containing chaff.
    — A mighty fountain […] / Amid whose swift half-intermitted Burst / Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, / Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:
  2. Full of banter, ridicule or badinage. colloquial,obsolete
    — He would talk for an hour; then he would half-draw, and talk again, and often blow his horn when there was no manner of occasion—always so chaffy.
  3. (of bracts, flower head receptacles, scales on cones or catkins) Resembling chaff: papery, husk-like; not fleshy, leafy or herbaceous.
  4. (of an ear of corn/maize) Having imperfectly developed kernels that are not tightly compressed against each other.
  5. Of as little value or substance as chaff; worthless. obsolete
    — […] thou ly’st, and art / A very theefe in love, a Chaffy Lord / Nor worth the name of villaine:

词形变化

chaffier comparative chaffiest superlative chaffier comparative chaffiest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
chaffily chaffiness
相关词
scarious

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English chaff
English -y
English chaffy
From chaff + -y.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English chaff
English -y
English chaffy
From chaff + -y.
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