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noun
A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Broader terms: garment
noun
A headscarf.
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noun
A neckcloth or cravat.
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Usage: dated
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noun
A type of joint in woodworking, formed by two shaped ends that fit into or onto each other.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
A cormorant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, transitive
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noun
Archaic form of scurf (“skin disease; skin flakes”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, archaic, countable, transitive, uncountable
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verb
To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
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verb
To cover as or like a scarf.
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verb
To shape by grinding or oxyfuel torch cutting.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, forming a "V" groove for welding adjacent metal plates, metal rods, etc.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To eat very quickly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, slang, transitive
Synonyms: scarf down, scarf up, scoff, guzzle
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noun
a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: garment
Narrower terms: feather boa, boa, fichu, kerchief, lambrequin, mantilla, muffler, patka, rebozo, sable, stole, tudung
noun
a joint made by notching the ends of two pieces of timber or metal so that they will lock together end-to-end
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: scarf joint
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Broader terms: joint
verb
wrap in or adorn with a scarf
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: wear, put on, get into, don, assume
verb
unite by a scarf joint
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: join, bring together
verb
masturbate while strangling oneself
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Broader terms: masturbate, wank, fuck off, she-bop, jack off, jerk off
History
Probably from Old Northern French escarpe (compare Old French escharpe (“pilgrim's purse suspended from the neck”), which see). The verb is derived from the noun. Doublet of scrip.
Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old Norse skarfr, derivative of skera (“to cut”).
From Old Norse skarfr.
Generally thought to be a variant, attested since the 1950s, of scoff (“eat (quickly)”) (of which scorf is another attested variant), itself a variant of scaff. Sometimes alternatively suggested to be a dialectal survival of Old English scearfian, sceorfan (“gnaw, bite”) (compare scurf).
Across languages
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