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Definition: Scurf |
ScurfNoun1. (botany) a covering that resembles scales or bran that covers some plant parts. 2. A thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scurf" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonym: ScurfSynonym: scale (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Uncleanness | Hogwash; ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater; rinsings, cheeseparings; sweepings; (useless refuse); offscourings, outscourings; off scum; caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff; scurf, scurfiness; exuviae, morphea; fur, furfur; dandruff, tartar. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Scurf |
| English words defined with "scurf": Furfur, Furfuration ♦ lepidote, leprose ♦ Roin ♦ scabrous, Scall, scaly, Scurfiness, scurfy. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "scurf": Shruff. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Without you, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's (Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le; writing credit: Guillaume Laurant; Jean-Pierre Jeunet) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It was no more than the scurf of his skin, which was constantly shuffled off. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Scurf" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scurf" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "scurf": sea scurf. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
scurf | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scurf"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zbokth (dandruff), leskër (flake, scale, squama). (various references) | |
Arabic | قشرة الجلد, قشرة الرأس, الهبرية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | котлен камък (fur, incrustation, scale), люспици, пърхот (dandruff, furfur), инкрустация на метал. (various references) | |
Czech | nános (deposit, lodgement, lodgment), lupy (dandruff, furfur). (various references) | |
Finnish | rupi (crust, scab). (various references) | |
French | teigne, pellicules, peau morte. (various references) | |
German | Schuppen (dandruff, dive, flake, hangar, hole, hovel, joint, outhouse, penthouse, scale, scurfs, shack, shanty, shed, shelter, shelters), Schorf (crust, scab, scaly skin, Slough). (various references) | |
Greek | κασίδα (scald). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קשקשים (dandruff), 'ע (blow, evil, leprosy, lesion, pestilence, plague, punishment, stroke, trouble). (various references) | |
Hungarian | söpredék (dregs, offscourings, rabble, raff, ragtag, riff raff, scum, sweepings, trash), korpa fejbõrön. (various references) | |
Italian | forfora (dandruff), crosta (cake, crust, rind, scab). (various references) | |
Korean | 비" (Dandruff). (various references) | |
Manx | far-scryss (dandruff, furfur), carrid (cariousness, mange, manginess, scabbiness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urfscay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | descamação da epiderme, caspa (dandruff). (various references) | |
Romanian | mãtreaţã (dandriff, dandruff), crustã (crust, incrustation, rind, scab, skin), coajã (bark, cortex, crust, Hull, husk, jacket, leather, peeling, rind, scale, shell, skin). (various references) | |
Russian | отложения (blanket), налет (bloom, deposit, foray, fur, hint, hold up, incrustation, raid, stick-up, taint), перхоть (dandruff, furfur, furfures). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | perutanje lišća, perut (dandruff), kora (bark, cortex, crust, peel, rind, scum). (various references) | |
Spanish | incrustación (fur, incrustation, inlay, inset, overlay, scale), caspa (Dander, dandruff, furfur). (various references) | |
Swedish | skorv (banger, barge, old tube), skabb (itch, mange, scab, scabbies, scabies). (various references) | |
Turkish | konak (court, dandriff, dandruff, hall, halting place, inn, mansion, residence, residency, road house, Villa), kepek (bran, dandriff, dandruff, scall, whole meal), kabuk (bark, carapace, coat, cockle, cockleshell, cortes, covering, crust, encrustation, eschar, Hull, husk, incrustation, integument, jacket, mantle, nutshell, Peel, pod, rind, scab, scale, shell, shuck, skin, squama). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | інкрустація на металі, накип (fur, furring, offscum, scale, silt), лупа (dandruff, furfur). (various references) | |
Welsh | crest (crust), cennu (scale), cen (film, lichen, peel, scales, skin). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scurf": scurfier, scurfiest, scurfs, scurfy. (additional references) | |
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"Scurf" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: corff, curf, curff, Cyrff, scarff, scarfo, scauf, scbr, Schuur, scoif, scorf, scouf, scru, scrue, scruf, scrul, scrut, scurb, scure, Scurfe, scurfs, scuri, scurm, scurn, scurr, scurs, scurt, scurve, scurz, Sgur, skru, skuf, skurf, skurt, skury, smurf. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: curfs. | |
| Words within the letters "c-f-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: crus, curf, curs, furs, surf. | |
-2 letters: cur, fur. | |
-3 letters: us. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-f-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: scruff, scurfs, scurfy. | |
+2 letters: carfuls, curfews, focuser, fractus, refocus, scruffs, scruffy, surface. | |
+3 letters: chaufers, factures, farceurs, fluerics, focusers, fracturs, frounces, fructose, fulcrums, functors, furcates, furnaces, futharcs, futhorcs, lucifers, prefocus, rackfuls, scornful, scrofula, scuffler, scurfier, sufficer, sulfuric, surfaced, surfacer, surfaces, unfrocks, usufruct. | |
+4 letters: chauffers, coiffeurs, coiffures, confuters, crossruff, crucifers, crucifies, cuniforms, ferocious, fluoresce, fourscore, fractious, fractures, franciums, fructoses, fructuous, fruticose, furcraeas, furuncles, overfocus, refocused, refocuses, resurface, rufescent, scrofulas, scruffier, scruffily, scufflers, scurfiest, sudorific, sufficers, surfacers, surfacing, surficial, surfperch, truckfuls, unciforms, usufructs. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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