chaffy

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “[…] thou ly’st, and art / A very theefe in love, a Chaffy Lord / Nor worth the name of villaine:”

5. sıfat Full of banter, ridicule or badinage.

   “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.”