Chaff″y (?), a. 1. Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.
Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail.
Coleridge.
2. Light or worthless as chaff.
Slight and chaffy opinion.
Glanvill.
3. (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.