scurf

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skɜː(ɹ)f/
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  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)f

Etymology 1

From Middle English , from Old English sceorf, from Proto-Germanic *skurf- (“to gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Cognate with Dutch schurft, German Schorf, Danish skurv, Swedish skorv.

Noun

scurf (countable and uncountable, plural scurfs)

  1. A skin disease.
  2. The flakes of skin that fall off as a result of a skin disease.
    Synonym: dandruff
  3. Any crust-like formations on the skin, or in general.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 670–673:
      There ſtood a Hill not far whoſe frieſly top / Belch'd fire and rowling ſmoak; the reſt entire / Shon with a gloſſie ſcurff, undoubted ſign / That in his womb was hid metallic Ore,
  4. (figurative) The foul remains of anything adherent.
    Synonym: scum
  5. (botany) Minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot.
  6. (obsolete, slang) A low, mean person.
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  • (low, mean person): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Etymology 2

Noun

scurf (plural scurfs)

  1. A grey bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus).

References

  1. ^ Asa Gray (1857) “.] Scurf.”, in First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology, , New York, N.Y.: Ivison & Phinney and G P Putnam & Co., , →OCLC.

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