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chaffily en · ADV

Etymology

From chaffy + -ly.

Meanings

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:

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