SCARF (scarves)

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Irregular inflected form: scarves   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does scarf mean? 

• SCARF (noun)
  The noun SCARF has 2 senses:

1. a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration

2. a joint made by notching the ends of two pieces of timber or metal so that they will lock together end-to-end

  Familiarity information: SCARF used as a noun is rare.

• SCARF (verb)
  The verb SCARF has 3 senses:

1. masturbate while strangling oneself

2. unite by a scarf joint

3. wrap in or adorn with a scarf

  Familiarity information: SCARF used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCARF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("scarf" is a kind of...):

garment (an article of clothing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scarf"):

boa; feather boa (a long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur)

fichu (a lightweight triangular scarf worn by a woman)

kerchief (a square scarf that is folded into a triangle and worn over the head or about the neck)

lambrequin (a scarf that covers a knight's helmet)

mantilla (a woman's silk or lace scarf)

muffler (a scarf worn around the neck)

patka (a scarf worn by Sikh men)

rebozo (a long woolen or linen scarf covering the head and shoulders (also used as a sling for holding a baby); traditionally worn by Latin-American women)

sable (a scarf (or trimming) made of sable)

stole (a wide scarf worn about their shoulders by women)

tudung (a scarf worn around the head by Muslim women in Malaysia; conceals the hair but not the face)

Derivation:

scarf (wrap in or adorn with a scarf)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A joint made by notching the ends of two pieces of timber or metal so that they will lock together end-to-end

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

scarf; scarf joint

Hypernyms ("scarf" is a kind of...):

joint (junction by which parts or objects are joined together)

Derivation:

scarf (unite by a scarf joint)

• SCARF (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Masturbate while strangling oneself

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "scarf" is one way to...):

fuck off; jack off; jerk off; masturbate; she-bop; wank (get sexual gratification through self-stimulation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Unite by a scarf joint

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "scarf" is one way to...):

join (cause to become joined or linked)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

scarf (a joint made by notching the ends of two pieces of timber or metal so that they will lock together end-to-end)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Wrap in or adorn with a scarf

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "scarf" is one way to...):

assume; don; get into; put on; wear (put clothing on one's body)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

scarf (a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration)

 Context examples 

One fine day up went the signal, and here come Flint by himself in a little boat, and his head done up in a blue scarf.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Its neck has an abundant scarf of hair and its tail is feathered and carried over its back.

(Lhasa Apso, NCI Thesaurus)

A thousand waving scarves and tossing caps announced that the first bout had fallen to the popular party.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She nodded, with a slightly arch expression, and loosened the scarf at her throat.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She was dressed in pure white; an amber-coloured scarf was passed over her shoulder and across her breast, tied at the side, and descending in long, fringed ends below her knee.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Leo also rules the luxury goods market, such as expensive perfumes, precious jewels, beautiful, quality designer attire, luxury shoes, handbags, scarves, sunglasses, and other accessories, as well as men’s custom-made suits.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“I will not,” said Mrs. Micawber, finishing her punch, and gathering her scarf about her shoulders, preparatory to her withdrawal to my bedroom: “I will not protract these remarks on the subject of Mr. Micawber's pecuniary affairs. At your fireside, my dear Mr. Copperfield, and in the presence of Mr. Traddles, who, though not so old a friend, is quite one of ourselves, I could not refrain from making you acquainted with the course I advise Mr. Micawber to take. I feel that the time is arrived when Mr. Micawber should exert himself and—I will add—assert himself, and it appears to me that these are the means. I am aware that I am merely a female, and that a masculine judgement is usually considered more competent to the discussion of such questions; still I must not forget that, when I lived at home with my papa and mama, my papa was in the habit of saying, “Emma's form is fragile, but her grasp of a subject is inferior to none.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Again I turned my face to leeward, and again I saw the jutting promontory, black and high and naked, the raging surf that broke about its base and beat its front high up with spouting fountains, the black and forbidden coast-line running toward the south-east and fringed with a tremendous scarf of white.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Her black satin dress, her scarf of rich foreign lace, and her pearl ornaments, pleased me better than the rainbow radiance of the titled dame.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Now, look here, you gives me food and drink and a old scarf or ankecher to tie my wound up, you do, and I'll tell you how to sail her, and that's about square all round, I take it.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)