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scarf en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /skɑːf/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /skɑɹf/ (Canada, General-American)
• audio Queensland
• /skɐːf/ (Australia, New-Zealand)

Etymology

Probably from Old Northern French escarpe (compare Old French escharpe (“pilgrim's purse suspended from the neck”), which see). The verb is derived from the noun. Doublet of scrip.

Meanings

1. A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
   • Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet. 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
2. A headscarf.
3. (dated) A neckcloth or cravat.

Forms

Deriveds

scarfwise · scarflike · Palestinian scarf · scarfmaker · infinity scarf · scoodie · overscarf · head-scarf · Möbius scarf · scarf-skin · pioneer scarf · scarfable · scarfless · enscarf · Ascot scarf · snarf · red scarf · scarfy · scarfpin · head scarf · scarfie · underscarf

Descendants

scaif · sgarff · scarf · scairf

Hypernyms

garment

Translations (165)

eo kolskarpo (long garment worn around the neck) · nv asdzání bichʼah (long garment worn around the neck) · ru кашне́ (long garment worn around the neck) · mt xalla (long garment worn around the neck) · uz sharf (long garment worn around the neck) · mi kāmeta (long garment worn around the neck) · cy sgarff (long garment worn around the neck) · cy sgarffiau (long garment worn around the neck) · tg шарф (long garment worn around the neck) · grc ὀράριον (long garment worn around the neck) · tt шарф (long garment worn around the neck) · yi שאַל (long garment worn around the neck) · ms skaf (long garment worn around the neck) · hu sál (long garment worn around the neck) · kk шарф (long garment worn around the neck) · mk шал (long garment worn around the neck) · et sall (long garment worn around the neck) · ur سْکارْف (long garment worn around the neck) · kmr stûmal (long garment worn around the neck) · th ผ้าพันคอ (long garment worn around the neck) · ru шарф (long garment worn around the neck) · es bufanda (long garment worn around the neck) · bn স্কার্ফ (long garment worn around the neck) · it sciarpa (long garment worn around the neck) · sh šȁl (long garment worn around the neck) · lo ຜ້າພັນຄໍ (long garment worn around the neck) · be ша́лік (long garment worn around the neck) · hy շարֆ (long garment worn around the neck) · tk şarf (long garment worn around the neck) · ro fular (long garment worn around the neck) · hy վզնոց (long garment worn around the neck) · tg гарданбанд (long garment worn around the neck) · ja 首巻き (long garment worn around the neck) · ajp لفحة (long garment worn around the neck) · az şarf (long garment worn around the neck) · uk шарф (long garment worn around the neck) · ast bufanda (long garment worn around the neck) · kk бөкебай (long garment worn around the neck) · ja 襟巻き (long garment worn around the neck) · gv bussal mwannal (long garment worn around the neck) · ko 스카프 (long garment worn around the neck) · arq كَاشْنِي (long garment worn around the neck) · is trefill (long garment worn around the neck) · it scaldacollo (long garment worn around the neck) · se kuššát (long garment worn around the neck) · gd crabhat (long garment worn around the neck) · ba шарф (long garment worn around the neck) · fo hálsturriklæði (long garment worn around the neck) · ug شارپا (long garment worn around the neck) · kmr şalgerdan (long garment worn around the neck) · ar وِشَاح (long garment worn around the neck) · ga muifléad (long garment worn around the neck) · ovd åserumkläð (long garment worn around the neck) · fa-ira شال (long garment worn around the neck) · tr fular (long garment worn around the neck) · ja マフラー (long garment worn around the neck) · mk ша́мија (long garment worn around the neck) · ur دُوپَٹَّہ (long garment worn around the neck) · cu оуброусъ (long garment worn around the neck) · sq shall (long garment worn around the neck) · rm schal (long garment worn around the neck) · se čeabetliidni (long garment worn around the neck) · izh kaglarätti (long garment worn around the neck) · nl sjaal (long garment worn around the neck) · vi khăn quàng cổ (long garment worn around the neck) · kmr gerdanparêz (long garment worn around the neck) · taa that'aɬ (long garment worn around the neck) · km ក្រមា (long garment worn around the neck) · nrf êcharpe (long garment worn around the neck) · ka ფერდი (long garment worn around the neck) · tg гарданпеч (long garment worn around the neck) · he צָעִיף (long garment worn around the neck) · ru га́лстук (long garment worn around the neck) · kl qungasequt (long garment worn around the neck) · km កន្សែងរុំក (long garment worn around the neck) · sv halsduk (long garment worn around the neck) · fr écharpe (long garment worn around the neck) · unm akontpèpi (long garment worn around the neck) · bg шарф (long garment worn around the neck) · hi दुपट्टा (long garment worn around the neck) · ckb مل بەست (long garment worn around the neck) · hu nyaksál (long garment worn around the neck) · uk кашне́ (long garment worn around the neck) · sip ཁ་ཀྲི (long garment worn around the neck) · es chalina (long garment worn around the neck) · eo koltuko (long garment worn around the neck) · sh ша̏л (long garment worn around the neck) · uz roʻmol (long garment worn around the neck) · vls sjerpe (long garment worn around the neck) · ky шарф (long garment worn around the neck) · mk ма́рама (long garment worn around the neck) · ja スカーフ (long garment worn around the neck) · krl kaklapaikka /kaglapaikka (long garment worn around the neck) · ro șal (long garment worn around the neck) · sl šal (long garment worn around the neck) · fi kaulahuivi (long garment worn around the neck) · pdt Binj (long garment worn around the neck) · mn ороолт (long garment worn around the neck) · afb شَال (long garment worn around the neck) · ca bufanda (long garment worn around the neck) · cs šála (long garment worn around the neck) · rm schlingia (long garment worn around the neck) · gl tapabocas (long garment worn around the neck) · pl szalik (long garment worn around the neck) · pt cachecol (long garment worn around the neck) · tr atkı (long garment worn around the neck) · se šearfa (long garment worn around the neck) · io sharpo (long garment worn around the neck) · ga cochall (long garment worn around the neck) · nb skjerf (long garment worn around the neck) · nrf mouoché (long garment worn around the neck) · de Schal (long garment worn around the neck) · yue 頸巾 /颈巾 (long garment worn around the neck) · ko 목도리 (long garment worn around the neck) · fi kaulaliina (long garment worn around the neck) · bo སྐེ་དཀྲིས (long garment worn around the neck) · sk šál (long garment worn around the neck) · cmn 圍脖兒 /围脖儿 (long garment worn around the neck) · hsb šawl (long garment worn around the neck) · gd crabhata (long garment worn around the neck) · km កន្សែង (long garment worn around the neck) · hi स्कार्फ़ (long garment worn around the neck) · lt šãlikas (long garment worn around the neck) · pt echarpe (long garment worn around the neck) · id syal (long garment worn around the neck) · la fōcāle (long garment worn around the neck) · br skerb (long garment worn around the neck) · ht foula (long garment worn around the neck) · da halstørklæde (long garment worn around the neck) · uk ша́лик (long garment worn around the neck) · gd sgarfa (long garment worn around the neck) · vi khăn choàng cổ (long garment worn around the neck) · ar لِفاع (long garment worn around the neck) · ga scaif (long garment worn around the neck) · be шарф (long garment worn around the neck) · el κασκόλ (long garment worn around the neck) · kk мойынорағыш (long garment worn around the neck) · vi khăn quàng (long garment worn around the neck) · tk ýaglyk (long garment worn around the neck) · my လည်စည်းပဝါ (long garment worn around the neck) · ko 머플러 (long garment worn around the neck) · acw شَال (long garment worn around the neck) · cmn 領巾 /领巾 (long garment worn around the neck) · lv šalle (long garment worn around the neck) · nv zéédéełdoii (long garment worn around the neck) · az kaşne (long garment worn around the neck) · bg шал (long garment worn around the neck) · id selempang leher (long garment worn around the neck) · nl das (long garment worn around the neck) · lb Schal (long garment worn around the neck) · cmn 圍巾 /围巾 (long garment worn around the neck) · apc شَال (long garment worn around the neck) · ru шаль (long garment worn around the neck) · gd coineathal (long garment worn around the neck) · gl chafandín (long garment worn around the neck) · ga scairf (long garment worn around the neck) · izh kaglašarffi (long garment worn around the neck) · fr cache-nez (long garment worn around the neck) · izh šarffi (long garment worn around the neck) · ro eșarfă (long garment worn around the neck) · gd stoc (long garment worn around the neck) · win waipere winąpʼį (long garment worn around the neck) · qu haku (long garment worn around the neck) · eo skarpo (long garment worn around the neck) · gl bufanda (long garment worn around the neck)

wikidata: Q191022

scarf en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /skɑːf/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /skɑɹf/ (Canada, General-American)
• audio Queensland
• /skɐːf/ (Australia, New-Zealand)

Etymology

Probably from Old Northern French escarpe (compare Old French escharpe (“pilgrim's purse suspended from the neck”), which see). The verb is derived from the noun. Doublet of scrip.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
   • Vp from my Cabin, / My ſea-gowne scarft about me in the darke / Gropt I to find out them, […] c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], signature N, recto:
2. (transitive) To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
   • The back of her tan trenchcoat swished from left to right as she scarfed her head and disappeared into the dusk. 1994, Arthur Johnson, “Chinese Arithmetic”, in Tony Grima, editor, Not the Only One: Lesbian and Gay Fiction for Teens, Boston, Mass.: Alyson Publications, published January 1995, →ISBN, page 144:
   • She scarfed her head.
3. (transitive) To cover as or like a scarf.
   • She was trying to keep the silken veil scarfing her shoulders in order. 1999, Isolde Martyn, chapter 12, in The Knight and the Rose, Sydney, N.S.W.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 125:
   • Transfixed on the smaller branches, intensely black against the moon, were organs harvested from the body cavity – heart, spleen, kidneys and liver. […] A length of slippery bowel scarfed my neck. 2006, Jim Younger, chapter 21, in High John the Conqueror, London: Vintage Books, published 2007, →ISBN, section 1, page 276:
   • A cowl scarfed her shoulders.
   • A large red ribbon scarfed her neck and seemed to have its own strange glow of the same hue. 2011, Falling Rain [pseudonym], “Fire on the Sacred Land”, in Ouroboros: Road of Legend, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 169:

Forms

scarf en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /skɑːf/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /skɑɹf/ (Canada, General-American)
• audio Queensland
• /skɐːf/ (Australia, New-Zealand)

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old Norse skarfr, derivative of skera (“to cut”).

Meanings

1. (transitive) A type of joint in woodworking, formed by two shaped ends that fit into or onto each other.
2. (transitive) A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
3. (transitive) A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling.

Forms

Translations (4)

mi tarawaha (a cut made into the trunk of a tree when felling) · mi hāngi (a cut made into the trunk of a tree when felling) · mi umu (a cut made into the trunk of a tree when felling) · mi taraumu (a cut made into the trunk of a tree when felling)

scarf en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /skɑːf/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /skɑɹf/ (Canada, General-American)
• audio Queensland
• /skɐːf/ (Australia, New-Zealand)

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old Norse skarfr, derivative of skera (“to cut”).

Meanings

1. (transitive) To shape by grinding or oxyfuel torch cutting.
2. (transitive) To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, forming a "V" groove for welding adjacent metal plates, metal rods, etc.
3. (transitive) To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.

Forms

Deriveds

scarfer

scarf en · VERB · etymology 3

Pronunciation

• /skɑːf/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /skɑɹf/ (Canada, General-American)
• audio Queensland
• /skɐːf/ (Australia, New-Zealand)

Etymology

Generally thought to be a variant, attested since the 1950s, of scoff (“eat (quickly)”) (of which scorf is another attested variant), itself a variant of scaff. Sometimes alternatively suggested to be a dialectal survival of Old English scearfian, sceorfan (“gnaw, bite”) (compare scurf).

Meanings

1. (US, slang, transitive) To eat very quickly.
   • Me: scarfing my daughter’s macaroni and cheese, now chilly, over the sink while halfheartedly rinsing dishes. 2015 December 11, Lara Bazelon, “Who Said ‘Game of Thrones’ Wasn’t for Kids?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2015:
   • We dug in. We ate everything there was to eat on the table. We ate like there was no tomorrow. We didn't talk. We ate. We scarfed. We grazed that table. We were into serious eating. We finished everything, including half a strawberry pie. 1983, Raymond Carver, Cathedral:
   • You sure scarfed that pizza.

Forms

Deriveds

scarf and barf · scarf up · scarfer · scarf down

Synonyms

scarf down · guzzle · scoff · scarf up

scarf en · NOUN · etymology 4

Pronunciation

• /skɑːf/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /skɑɹf/ (Canada, General-American)
• audio Queensland
• /skɐːf/ (Australia, New-Zealand)

Etymology

From Old Norse skarfr.

Meanings

1. (Scotland, transitive) A cormorant.

Forms

scarf en · NOUN · etymology 5

Pronunciation

• /skɑːf/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /skɑɹf/ (Canada, General-American)
• audio Queensland
• /skɐːf/ (Australia, New-Zealand)

Meanings

1. (alt-of, archaic, countable, transitive, uncountable) Archaic form of scurf (“skin disease; skin flakes”).
   alt of scurf

Forms