English
Image:Woman wearing scarf.jpg|thumb|right|150px|woman wearing a scarf [1]

Pronunciation
rhymes|��(r)f

Noun
en-noun|scarves|pl2=scarfs

1. A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
2. A headscarf.
3. A type of joint in woodworking.

Translations
trans-top|long garment worn around the neck
Danish: halstørklæde n
Dutch: sjaal m, sjerp m
Esperanto nuktuko
Finnish: huivi
French: écharpe f
German: Schal m
Italian: sciarpa f
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Kurdish: KUchar|�� ب��ست
Polish: szalik m
Portuguese: cachecol m
Russian: �� m
Slovene: Å¡al m
Spanish: bufanda f
Swedish: halsduk c
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trans-top|headscarf
See headscarf
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Verb
en-verb

1. To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.

#* My sea-gown scarfed about me. -- Shakespeare.

1. To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
2. context|transitive|slang To eat very quickly.

#: You sure scarfed that pizza.

Usage notes
The more usual of the slang term is term|scoff.

Translations
trans-top|to eat very quickly
Dutch: schrokken
Finnish: hotkia, ahmia
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French: engouffrer
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Derived terms
scarf down

References
R:1913

Category:English nouns with irregular plurals

Old High German

Etymology
proto|Germanic|skarpaz|langgoh, whence also Old English term|scearp|langang, Old Norse term|skarpr|lang=non

Adjective
infl|goh|adjective

1. sharp

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