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dandruffy en · ADJ

Etymology

From dandruff + -y.

Meanings

1. Like dandruff; scurfy.
2. Suffering from dandruff; marked by the presence of dandruff.
   • A man in shabby dinner clothes and sleeked-down dandruffy hair came forward, already disapproving. 1969, Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City, HarperCollins, published 1993, page 33:
   • The place was dark and musty, and the same sullen guard lazed about in his dandruffy blazer. 2004, T R Pearson, True Cross:

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