scurfy

[skur-fee]

adjective

scurfier, scurfiest 

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

They were looking at “scurfy” mice; males are unexpectedly born with flaky skin and enlarged spleens and only live for a few weeks, because their organs are attacked by their own immune cells.

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

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Priscilla smiled at the General as he emerged from the hands of Jane, "red and scurfy," just as he had said.

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Underneath, the leaf is always scurfy, even when the ripening turns its color from bronze to brown, yellow or dull red.

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

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