Find your perfect word!
Definition scarf
Etymology 1
Probably from Old Northern French escarpe (compare Old French escharpe (“pilgrim's purse suspended from the neck”)). The verb is derived from the noun.
Noun
scarf (plural scarves or scarfs)
Verb
scarf (third-person singular simple present scarfs, present participle scarfing, simple past and past participle scarfed)
- To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
- To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
Etymology 2
Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old Norse skarfr, derivative of skera (“to cut”).
Noun
scarf (plural scarfs)
- A type of joint in woodworking.
- A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
- A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling.
Verb
scarf (third-person singular simple present scarfs, present participle scarfing, simple past and past participle scarfed)
- To shape by grinding.
- 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.
- To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
Etymology 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).
Verb
scarf (third-person singular simple present scarfs, present participle scarfing, simple past and past participle scarfed)
- (transitive, US, slang) To eat very quickly.
Etymology 4
Noun
scarf
- (Scotland) A cormorant.
Results 420 Words with the letters SCARF
12 letter words with the letters SCARF ↑
11 letter words with the letters SCARF ↑
10 letter words with the letters SCARF ↑
9 letter words with the letters SCARF ↑
8 letter words with the letters SCARF ↑
7 letter words with the letters SCARF ↑
6 letter words with the letters SCARF ↑
5 letter words with the letters SCARF ↑
4 letter words with the letters SCARF ↑
3 letter words with the letters SCARF ↑
2 letter words with the letters SCARF ↑
You can also try words with the phrase SCARF, words starting with the letters SCARF, or words ending in the letters SCARF.
Favorites Searches
Words… ending with q, starting with q, starting with qa, starting with qo, with two letters, starting with x, starting with j, ending with j,
Some random searches: Words with the letters NCA, Words with the letters ER, Words with the letters IJNOZ, Words with the letters XDPI,