scarfとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /skɑːf/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /skɑːɹf/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)f

語源 1

Probably from Old Northern French escarpe (compare Old French escharpe (“pilgrim's purse suspended from the neck”), which see). The verb is derived from the noun. Doublet of scrip.

名詞

scarf (複数形 scarves または scarfs)

1. A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     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.

2. A headscarf.
3. (dated) A neckcloth or cravat.

派生語

派生した語

• → Welsh: sgarff

動詞

scarf (三人称単数 現在形 scarfs, 現在分詞 scarfing, 過去形および過去分詞形 scarfed)

1. To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     My sea-gown scarfed about me.

2. To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.

別の表記

• scarve

語源 2

Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old Norse skarfr, derivative of skera (“to cut”).

名詞

scarf (複数形 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.

同意語

• muffler

動詞

scarf (三人称単数 現在形 scarfs, 現在分詞 scarfing, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

語源 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.^[1][2] Sometimes alternatively suggested to be a dialectal survival of 古期英語 scearfian, sceorfan (“gnaw, bite”) (compare scurf).^[3]

動詞

scarf (三人称単数 現在形 scarfs, 現在分詞 scarfing, 過去形および過去分詞形 scarfed)

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

   Synonyms: (英国用法) scoff, guzzle

   You sure scarfed that pizza.

   • 1983, Raymond Carver, Cathedral:

     We dug in. We ate everything there was to eat on the table. We ate like there was no tomorrow. We didn't talk. We ate. We scarfed. We grazed that table. We were into serious eating. We finished everything, including half a strawberry pie.

派生語

• scarf and barf
• scarf down

語源 4

From Old Norse skarfr.

名詞

scarf (複数形 scarfs)

1. (Scotland) A cormorant.

別の表記

• scart, skart

名詞

scarf (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 scarfs)

1. Archaic form of scurf (“skin disease; skin flakes”).

参照

• “scarf”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• carfs, fracs