Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Chaffy

Chaffy , adjective

1.
Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.
Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail. — Coleridge
2.
Light or worthless as chaff.
Slight and chaffy opinion. — Glanvill
3.
(a) (Botany) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.
(b)
(Botany) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers.