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Scurfy

adjective
(compar. scurfier; superl. scurfiest)
1.
Having or producing or covered with scurf.
2.
Rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf.  Synonyms: lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaly.





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"Scurfy" Quotes from Famous Books



... coarse kind used to wrap round sake barrels. He was clothed in rags glued together by the foul discharges of his sores. He removed the towel from his face. The ghastly white and red blotches, the livid scars of the leper, the head with patches of scurfy hair ready to fall at a touch, startled even Iemon the priest. He would not have touched this man, expelled him by force, for all the past wealth of Tamiya. The intruder ...
— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville


Words linked to "Scurfy" :   biology, biological science, rough, scurf, lepidote, unsmooth


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