Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An epidermal scale, as that associated with dandruff.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, dandruff; scurf; porrigo; in the plural, scales like bran, as of the skin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scurf; dandruff.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic, countable a particle of
dandruff - noun archaic, uncountable
dandruff
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Dandruff results from inflammation of the scalp as well as from a fungus called Malassezia furfur, formerly called Pityrosporum ovale stellar work by the ad agency that changed that name.
You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008
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Dandruff results from inflammation of the scalp as well as from a fungus called Malassezia furfur, formerly called Pityrosporum ovale stellar work by the ad agency that changed that name.
You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008
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Today in the Snell-Pym nursery a.k.a Jeans bedroom Jean asked Mummy for a film so Mummy asked furfur if he could bring some films with him when he came to see us.
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Mom awlwayz sed tu wear kleen unnerwear in case yor in uh aksident, but ai fink ai taik it wun step furfur.
in-laws visiting? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Today in the Snell-Pym nursery a.k.a Jeans bedroom Jean asked Mummy for a film so Mummy asked furfur if he could bring some films with him when he came to see us.
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= Scurf = — “furfur or furfura” — is a formation depending on the natural and healthy exfoliation of the skin on every part of the body on which hair or down grows, but most extensive and observable on the scalp, on account of the abundance and darker color of the hair there.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous
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Among the diseases of the scalp attention is given to alopecia, dandruff (_furfur_), tinea caries and various pustular affections, fanus (favus), rima, spidecia, achora, etc.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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To a vegetable fungus -- the _microsporon furfur_.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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It is believed that such cases are variously due to the trichophyton of ringworm, to the microsporon furfur of tinea versicolor, to the microsporon minutissimus of erythrasma, and to other parasites.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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The meal don't is valuable better than the furfur. '' '
Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1877
whichbe commented on the word furfur
May 30, 2008
dontcry commented on the word furfur
This word reminds me of my late father-in-law. My children called him Far Far, which is "Father's Father" in Swedish.
The picture looks a lot like Rudolph (except for the hands and wings bit)from the Christmas show we watched on tv as children!
May 30, 2008