scarfy

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adjective

Resembling or involving a scarf.

“a scarfy shawl”

Scrabble 14

Meanings

scarfy1

adjectivescarfy (comparative more scarfy, superlative most scarfy)

comparative more scarfy · superlative most scarfy

  1. informalResembling or involving a scarf.

    a scarfy shawl

    2 more examples

    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.

    2009, Eleanor Thom, The Tin-Kin, London: Duckworth Overlook, →ISBN, page 118

    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.

    2014, Christopher Buehlman, The Lesser Dead, New York N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 157

scarfy2

adjectivescarfy (comparative more scarfy, superlative most scarfy)

comparative more scarfy · superlative most scarfy

  1. archaicArchaic form of scurfy.

    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.

    1861, The Homestead, page 368

Origin

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