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scurfy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈskɜː(ɹ)fi/
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Etymology

From scurf + -y.

Meanings

1. Characterized by scurf; covered with scurf.
   • "[A]nd who do you think were sittting there? Why, my mother and your father of course, both mending boots; and all of a sudden my mother gave your father such a blow with an old boot, that the scurf flew out of his hair!" "There you tell a lie," shouted the princess; "my father never was scurfy!" 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 247:
   • Many of these natives, especially the lower classes, and fishermen, have their skins disfigured in a singular manner, by a sort of scurfy disease, similar to the ring-worm, or rather to a person whose skin was peeling off from the effects of the sun. 1848 December, “Pacific Ocean: The Island of Bornabi”, in The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, volume 17, number 12, page 647:

Forms

Deriveds

scurfy pea · northern scurfy Quaker moth

Translations (6)

fi hilseilevä (characterized by scurf, scabby) · de verschorft (characterized by scurf, scabby) · de schorfig (characterized by scurf, scabby) · de verkrustet (characterized by scurf, scabby) · bg покрит с пърхот (characterized by scurf, scabby) · de grindig (characterized by scurf, scabby)