scurf
- noun
- /skɜrf/
:
caspa
- After using a new shampoo, she found the scurf on her scalp had reduced significantly.
Examples
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Every day she taught the school subjects and also showed the children how to wash, using a tub she had bought and kept under the eaves of the privy, how to brush their teeth, to comb their hair, how to use kerosene for scurf and head lice, and oil for chilblains.
Fiction book (1993) -
His hands were large, and the skin of them had a chalky scurf to it.
Fiction book (1997) -
Scurf.
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They did indeed smell, and they were crusty with scurf and mange, their hair bushy with nits and uncombed.
Fiction book (1993) -
He noticed little white scurf on his shoulders after wearing a dark shirt.
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The old dog had patches of scurf on its skin that needed to be treated.
Synonyms
28
3.5
A small thin piece of skin that can come off
16
2.7
Small white flakes of dead skin on the scalp that may fall onto hair or shoulders
Antonyms
How Flaky
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word scurf comes from an old Norse word skorfa that meant 'scab' or 'flake'. So scurf is easy to imagine as the small scaly bits of dead skin on the head, like dandruff.