chaffy

How To Use chaffy In A Sentence

• Nut kernels that are poorly filled are often hollow, shrunken, shriveled, and chaffy. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
• By the side of it a man was setting out on an eating-stand a half-eaten ham, chaffy rolls and pies yellow with age. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
• It went to my heart to oppose her in any wish; and also this kind of chaffy opposition might pain her. The Lady of the Shroud
• Food: Swiss cheese small chaffy dish, meat hotpot, carrot cakes, etc.
• Badawi (vol.v. 98), with its reminiscence of “chaffy” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• The words of praise he gives his memory are like golden grains amid the chaffy _verbiage_ with which he defends himself. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851
• How 'chaffy' and frivolous this gay world of London appeared to these first Publishers, consumed with the burning eagerness of their mission, the following description shows. A Book of Quaker Saints
• Palate: = hypopharynx; q.v. Paleace: chaff or chaffy: = paleaceous. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
• Each disc flower is surrounded by a sharp-pointed, chaffy bract and consists of a basal inferior ovary, two pappus scales, and a tubular corolla.
• an empty chaffy book by a foolish chaffy fellow