chaffy

adjective5

1. •
   Like or containing chaff.

   • A mighty fountain […] / Amid whose swift half-intermitted Burst / Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, / Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail: — 1816
2. •
   (of bracts, flower head receptacles, scales on cones or catkins) Resembling chaff: papery, husk-like; not fleshy, leafy or herbaceous.
3. •
   (of an ear of corn/maize) Having imperfectly developed kernels that are not tightly compressed against each other.
4. •
   (no longer used) Of as little value or substance as chaff; worthless.
5. •
   (informal, no longer used) Full of banter, ridicule or badinage.

   • He would talk for an hour; then he would half-draw, and talk again, and often blow his horn when there was no manner of occasion—always so chaffy. — 1859