scurf
pronunciation
How to pronounce scurf in British English:
UK [skɜ:f]
How to pronounce scurf in American English:
US [skɜf]
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- Noun:
- (botany) a covering that resembles scales or bran that covers some plant parts
- a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin
Word Origin
- scurf (n.)
- late Old English sceorf, from Proto-Germanic *skurf- (cognates: Danish skurv, Middle Dutch scorf, Dutch schurft, Old High German scorf, German Schorf "scurf"), probably related to Old English sceorfan "to gnaw," scearfian "to cut into shreds," from PIE *skerp-, from root *(s)ker- "to cut" (see shear (v.)).
Example
- 1. Is scurf much unapt also such ?
- 2. In fact we often face is ordinary work , lock scurf affairs , life that 's how it is .