Word.ws English Dictionary

chaffily

chaffily adverb: in the manner of chaff.

Adverb

chaffily (comparative more chaffily, superlative most chaffily)

  1. (rare) In the manner of chaff.
    • He wanted to chew the milky grains— / But none broke chaffily free from their pockets.1997, Ted Hughes, “Midas”, in Tales from Ovid, pages 202-203
  2. (obsolete, rare) In a bantering or ridiculing manner.
    • This [hell] is where Chaucer also chaffily places the Friars.1869, Ballad Society, First Report, page 251, footnote

Forms of chaffily

comparativemore chaffily
superlativemost chaffily

Origin of chaffily

From chaffy + -ly.

Questions about chaffily

What does chaffily mean?
Chaffily means in the manner of chaff.
What part of speech is chaffily?
Chaffily is an adverb.

Words near chaffily in the dictionary

  1. chaffery
  2. chaffie
  3. chaffier
  4. chaffies
  5. chaffiest
  6. chaffily
  7. Chaffin
  8. chaffinch
  9. chaffinches
  10. chaffiness
  11. chaffing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chaffily (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “chaffily.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chaffily. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.