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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scurfy

Scurfy \Scurf"y\, a. [Compar. Scurfier; superl. Scurfiest.] Having or producing scurf; covered with scurf; resembling scurf.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
scurfy

late 15c., from scurf + -y (2). Compare scurvy. Related: Scurfiness.

Wiktionary
scurfy

a. covered with scurf

WordNet
scurfy
  1. adj. having or producing or covered with scurf

  2. rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf [syn: lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaly]

Usage examples of "scurfy".

Sameness locks no scurfy pond Here for Custom, crazy-fond: Change is on the wing to bud Rose in brain from rose in blood.

Harlots and scurfy knaves became religious fanatics, determined to crawl the length of the country or wash the feet of every leper they could find.

DiCampo wore his scurfy purple velvet house jacket like the prince he was entitled to call himself, but did not.

The other was fusty and scurfy, feathers awry, and yet of the two, this one appeared the stronger and more vital.

He took off his helmet and raked at a scurfy bald skull with filthy nails.

He worked at a rickety little table amid piles of paper and unidentifiable junk, rank, scurfy, soiled and absolutely unconcerned with everything in the world except the expertise of taking one tiny fragment of the remote past and fitting it into another little fragment, and thereby filling that tiny gap in the continuity of the history of the human animal.