scurfy

American  

[skur-fee] / ˈskɜr fi /

adjective

scurfier, scurfiest

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

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Etymology

Origin of scurfy

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

Example Sentences

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scurfy

The duo mapped a piece of chromosome from a scurfy mouse, a huge undertaking at the time, and planned to look at 20 genes in that area.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025

The lurching subway car on New York's ancient IRT line was a meticu lous replica of the real thing, complete with dirty windows and a scurfy litter of candy wrappers on the floor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fruit a small berry-like drupe, with 4 nutlets.—Shrubs, with scurfy pubescence, and small flowers in axillary cymes.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

P. 3-5 cm. convex, edge incurved, delicately hispid or scurfy, yellow, fixed by cottony mycelium, stem obsolete; g. rather broad, ventricose, pale tan, edge whitish; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Lep′ra, leprosy: a scurfy, mealy substance on the surface of some plants.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various