scarf
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /skɑːf/
美 /skɑɹf/|/skɐːf/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
— Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
- A type of joint in woodworking, formed by two shaped ends that fit into or onto each other.
- A cormorant.
- Archaic form of scurf (“skin disease; skin flakes”).
- A headscarf.
- A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
- A neckcloth or cravat.
- A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling.
动词 v.
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To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
— Vp from my Cabin, / My ſea-gowne scarft about me in the darke / Gropt I to find out them, […]
- To shape by grinding or oxyfuel torch cutting.
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To eat very quickly.
— You sure scarfed that pizza.
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To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
— She scarfed her head.
- 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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To cover as or like a scarf.
— A cowl scarfed her shoulders.
- To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
词形变化
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
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.
词源 2
Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old Norse skarfr, derivative of skera (“to cut”).
词源 3
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).
词源 4
From Old Norse skarfr.
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