chaffy
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i, ˈtʃɑ
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chaff1 (tʃɑːf) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the mass of husks, etc, separated from the seeds during threshing |
| 2. | finely cut straw and hay used to feed cattle |
| 3. | something of little worth; rubbish (esp in the phrase separate the wheat from the chaff) |
| 4. | the dry membranous bracts enclosing the flowers of certain composite plants |
| 5. | thin strips of metallic foil released into the earth's atmosphere to confuse radar signals and prevent detection |
| [Old English ceaf; related to Old High German keva husk] | |
| 'chaffy1 | |
| —adj | |
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Chaffy
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
Example sentences
Drainage from areas fertilized by manure may yield chaffy seed- coats or undigested fragments of oats or corn.
However, the drill used in the initial study was not capable of handling light chaffy seed.
Seeds are chaffy and tend to bridge in the seed box of seeding equipment when agitation is not provided.
Conventional equipment cannot handle native seeds that are light and chaffy, or have awns or hairy appendages.
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