different between scarf vs scarfer

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sk??f/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sk???f/
• Rhymes: -??(?)f

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. Doublet of scrip.

Noun

scarf (plural scarves or scarfs)

1. A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
2. A headscarf.
3. (dated) A neckcloth or cravat.

Derived terms

• infinity scarf
• Möbius scarf

Descendants

• ? Welsh: sgarff

Translations

Verb

scarf (third-person singular simple present scarfs, present participle scarfing, simple past and past participle scarfed)

1. To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
   • 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 2:

     My sea-gown scarfed about me.

2. 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)

1. A type of joint in woodworking.
2. A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
3. A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling.

Synonyms

• muffler

Translations

Verb

scarf (third-person singular simple present scarfs, present participle scarfing, simple past and past participle scarfed)

1. To shape by grinding.
2. 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.
3. 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)

1. (transitive, US, slang) To eat very quickly.

   Synonym: (UK) scoff

Derived terms

• scarf down

Translations

Etymology 4

From Old Norse skarfr.

Noun

scarf (plural scarfs)

1. (Scotland) A cormorant.

References

• scarf in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• carfs, fracs

Old High German

Alternative forms

• scarph

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *skarpaz, whence also Old Saxon skarp, Old English scearp, Old Norse skarpr. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerb-, from *(s)ker- (“to cut”).

Adjective

scarf

1. sharp

Descendants

• Middle High German: scharpf
  • Alemannic German: scharpf
  • Bavarian: scharf
  • Central Franconian: schärp, scharp
  • German: scharf
  • Hunsrik: schaaref
  • Luxembourgish: schaarf
  • Yiddish: ?????? (sharf)

English

Etymology

scarf +? -er

Pronunciation

Noun

scarfer (plural scarfers)

1. One who shapes by grinding.

   He worked as a scarfer in a steel mill.

2. (slang) One who scarfs or guzzles food.
3. (Britain, slang) An everyday football supporter who is not involved in hooliganism.