scurfy

[ skur-fee ]

adjective

, scurf·i·er, scurf·i·est.

1. resembling, producing, or covered with or as if with scurf.

Word History and Origins

Origin of scurfy¹

First recorded in 1475–85; scurf + -y ¹

Example Sentences

"Perhaps Fane will recite to us his discovery," said Mr. Cray, scratching his scurfy head with the gnawed end of a penholder.

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Stem: Stout; yellowish; minutely roughened with scurfy dots, or faintly striped with brown.

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The winter buds are compressed, scurfy, and of a bright yellow color.

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Flesh very thin, pileus soon splitting along the lines of the gills, scurfy or glabrous.

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Nearly half of them were afflicted with the scurfy skin-disease.

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