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scurf

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5 lettersPronunciation /skɜː(ɹ)f/Part of speech nounSorted cfrsuStarts with SEnds with F0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin

Word origin

From scurf (“skin disease causing scabs or scales; flakes of skin that fall off due to a skin disease, etc.”), from Old English scurf, from Proto-Germanic *skurf- (“to gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off, sever; to divide, separate”). Cognate with Dutch schurft, German Schorf, Danish skurv, Swedish skorv.

Used in a sentence

  • There ſtood a Hill not far whoſe frieſly top / Belch'd fire and rowling ſmoak; the reſt entire / Shon with a gloſſie ſcurff, undoubted ſign / That in his womb was hid metallic Ore,
  • The Scurf is worn away, of each committed Crime

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