scarfy
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
scarfy (comparative more scarfy, superlative most scarfy)
- (informal) Resembling or involving a scarf.
- a scarfy shawl
- 2009, Eleanor Thom, The Tin-Kin, London: Duckworth Overlook, →ISBN, page 118:
- It came with a Free Gift! A silk neck scarf in emerald green that Dawn knew she'd tuck away as a keepsake but never wear. She wasn't a scarfy sort of person.
- 2014, Christopher Buehlman, The Lesser Dead, New York N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 157:
- The next one who came too close to the alley was for Gua Gua. Kind of a badly shaven PLO sympathizer guy with a— What's that word for the Yasser Arafat scarfy thing? I don't know.
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
scarfy (comparative more scarfy, superlative most scarfy)
- Archaic form of scurfy.
- 1861, The Homestead, page 368:
- Pigs kept in close quarters may have fair general health, and yet have a scarfy skin, especially on the back, which will leave them when well cared for and allowed more range.
References edit
- “scarfy, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
