chaffy
adjective
chaffy is an adjective meaning “Like or containing chaff” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-A-F-F-Y and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does chaffy mean?
adjective
- 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
obsoleteOf as little value or substance as chaff; worthless.
- 5
colloquialobsoleteFull of banter, ridicule or badinage.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce chaffy?
Chaffy has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of chaffy
- chaffier comparative
- chaffiest superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chaffy?
Chaffy appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does chaffy come from?
From chaff + -y.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).