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scarf

noun
🔊/skɑːf/
🔊/skɑːrf/
(plural scarves
🔊/skɑːvz/
🔊/skɑːrvz/
, less frequent scarfs)
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  1. a piece of cloth that is worn around the neck, for example to keep warm or for decoration. Women also wear scarves over their shoulders or hair.围巾；披巾；头巾
    • a woollen/silk scarf羊毛／丝绸围巾
    Extra Examples
    • He wrapped his scarf around his neck.他把围巾围在脖子上。
    • Her hair was covered by a silk scarf.她的头发遮掩在丝巾下。
    • She had a scarf tied over her head.她的头上裹了条头巾。
    Topics Clothes and Fashiona2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • long
    • thick
    • cashmere
    • …
    verb + scarf
    • wind around something
    • wrap around something
    • knot
    • …
    scarf + verb
    • cover something
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    Word Originnoun mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘sash (around the waist or over the shoulder)’): probably based on Old Northern French escarpe, probably identical with Old French escharpe ‘pilgrim's scrip’.

scarf

verb
🔊/skɑːf/
🔊/skɑːrf/
(North American English)
(British English scoff)
[intransitive, transitive] (informal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they scarf
🔊/skɑːf/
🔊/skɑːrf/
he / she / it scarfs
🔊/skɑːfs/
🔊/skɑːrfs/
past simple scarfed
🔊/skɑːft/
🔊/skɑːrft/
past participle scarfed
🔊/skɑːft/
🔊/skɑːrft/
-ing form scarfing
🔊/ˈskɑːfɪŋ/
🔊/ˈskɑːrfɪŋ/
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  1. scarf (something) to eat a lot of something quickly贪婪地吃；狼吞虎咽
    Word Originverb 1960s: variant of scoff in the sense ‘eat quickly and greedily’.