chaffily

adv

Etymology

From chaffy + -ly.

Definitions

  1. In the manner of chaff.

    • He wanted to chew the milky grains— / But none broke chaffily free from their pockets.
  2. In a bantering or ridiculing manner.

    • This [hell] is where Chaucer also chaffily places the Friars.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chaffily. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA