Synonyms of the word scurfy


SCURFYBIT - CHIP - FLAKE - FLECK - LEPIDOTE - LEPROSE - ROUGH - SCABROUS - SCALY - SCRAP - UNSMOOTH

scurfy

  • adj. covered with scurf.

bit

  • n. A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
  • n. A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
  • n. (dated, Britain) A coin of a specified value. (Also formerly used for a nine-pence coin in the British…
  • n. (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime.
  • n. (US) An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first…
  • n. (historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly…
  • n. A small amount of something.
  • n. (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
  • n. A portion of something.
  • n. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree.
  • n. (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
  • n. An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
  • n. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
  • n. The cutting iron of a plane.
  • adv. To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a").
  • v. (transitive) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
  • v. simple past tense of bite.
  • v. (informal in US, archaic in Britain) past participle of bite, bitten.
  • adj. (colloquial) bitten.
  • adj. (only in combination) Having been bitten.
  • n. (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
  • n. (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
  • n. (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
  • n. (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
  • n. A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).

chip

  • n. A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
  • n. A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
  • n. (games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.
  • n. (electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.
  • n. (electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised…
  • n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, especially in the plural) A fried strip of potato of square…
  • n. (US, Australia and New Zealand, especially in the plural) A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, or sometimes…
  • n. (sports) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to…
  • n. (curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
  • n. A dried piece of dung used as fuel.
  • n. (New Zealand, northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
  • n. (cooking) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
  • n. A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent…
  • n. (nautical) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
  • n. (historical) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making…
  • n. (archaic, derogatory) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.
  • n. (golf) A low shot that travels further along the ground than it does in the air.
  • v. (transitive) To break into small pieces.
  • v. (transitive) To break small pieces from.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To play a shot hitting the ball predominately upwards rather than forwards.
  • v. (transitive, sports) In association football, specifically, to play a shot on goal by kicking the ball…
  • v. (transitive, automotive) to upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
  • v. (intransitive) To become chipped.
  • v. (intransitive, card games, often with "in") To ante (up).
  • v. (transitive, informal) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
  • v. (Britain, transitive, often with "in") to contribute.

flake

  • n. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything.
  • n. A scale of a fish or similar animal.
  • n. (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
  • n. (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining…
  • n. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
  • v. To break or chip off in a flake.
  • v. (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
  • v. (technical) To store an item such as rope in layers.
  • v. (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
  • n. (Britain) Dogfish.
  • n. (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
  • n. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish…
  • n. (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
  • n. (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).

fleck

  • n. A flake.
  • n. A lock, as of wool.
  • n. A small spot or streak; a speckle.
  • v. (transitive) To mark with small spots.

lepidote

  • adj. (botany) Having a coat of scurfy scales.
  • n. (botany) Any plant with a coat of scurfy scales.

leprose

  • adj. (biology) Covered with thin, scurfy scales.

rough

  • adj. Having a texture that has much friction. Not smooth; uneven.
  • adj. Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
  • adj. Turbulent.
  • adj. Difficult; trying.
  • adj. Crude; unrefined.
  • adj. Violent; not careful or subtle.
  • adj. Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.
  • adj. Not polished; uncut; said of a gem.
  • adj. Harsh-tasting.
  • n. The unmowed part of a golf course.
  • n. A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
  • n. (cricket) A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by…
  • n. The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
  • n. A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail, but larger and more detailed. Meant for artistic brainstorming…
  • n. (obsolete) Boisterous weather.
  • v. To create in an approximate form.
  • v. (ice hockey) To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
  • v. To render rough; to roughen.
  • v. To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.
  • adv. In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.

scabrous

  • adj. Covered with scales or scabs; hence, very coarse or rough.
  • adj. (figuratively) Disgusting, repellent, repulsive, vile.
  • adj. (figuratively) Of music, writing, etc.: lacking refinement, harsh, rough; unmelodious, unmusical.
  • adj. (figuratively) Difficult, thorny, troublesome.
  • adj. (figuratively, chiefly US) Covered with a crust of dirt or grime.

scaly

  • adj. Covered or abounding with scales.
  • adj. Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
  • adj. (dated, vulgar or South Africa) Mean; low.
  • adj. Composed of scales lying over each other.
  • n. (South Africa) The scaly yellowfish, Labeobarbus natalensis.

scrap

  • n. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
  • n. (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
  • n. Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
  • n. (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated to the Norte gang.
  • n. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
  • v. (transitive) To discard.
  • v. (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
  • v. (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
  • v. (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
  • v. (transitive) To make into scrap.
  • n. A fight, tussle, skirmish.
  • v. to fight.

unsmooth

  • adj. Not smooth; rough.
  • v. (transitive) To make no longer smooth; to roughen or furrow.

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