adjective
- containing, resembling, or consisting of chaff (the husks of grain separated during threshing)
- of little value; worthless or trivial
Usage: figurative
Examples
- The chaffy residue was blown away by the wind during harvest.
- After winnowing, the grain was separated from the chaffy material.
- His chaffy remarks added nothing to the serious discussion.
- The book was filled with chaffy anecdotes that distracted from the main argument.
- Chaffy wheat requires careful processing to produce clean grain.