Scarf

/skɑːf/ · noun

Meaning

A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck..

Definitions by Sense

1. A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
2. A headscarf.
3. (dated) A neckcloth or cravat.
4. To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
5. To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
6. To cover as or like a scarf.
7. A type of joint in woodworking, formed by two shaped ends that fit into or onto each other.
8. A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.

Example Sentences

Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.

Vp from my Cabin, / My ſea-gowne scarft about me in the darke / Gropt I to find out them, […]

She scarfed her head.

The back of her tan trenchcoat swished from left to right as she scarfed her head and disappeared into the dusk.

A cowl scarfed her shoulders.

She was trying to keep the silken veil scarfing her shoulders in order.

Transfixed on the smaller branches, intensely black against the moon, were organs harvested from the body cavity – heart, spleen, kidneys and liver. […] A length of slippery bowel scarfed my neck.

A large red ribbon scarfed her neck and seemed to have its own strange glow of the same hue.

Synonyms for scarf

Antonyms for scarf

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Word Forms

• scarves
• scarfs
• scarfing
• scarfed
• scarve
• scart
• skart

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