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dandruffy

dandruffy adjective: like dandruff; scurfy.

Adjective

dandruffy (comparative more dandruffy, superlative most dandruffy)

  1. Like dandruff; scurfy.
  2. Suffering from dandruff; marked by the presence of dandruff.
    • A man in shabby dinner clothes and sleeked-down dandruffy hair came forward, already disapproving.1969, Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City, HarperCollins, published 1993, page 33
    • The place was dark and musty, and the same sullen guard lazed about in his dandruffy blazer.2004, T R Pearson, True Cross

Forms of dandruffy

comparativemore dandruffy
superlativemost dandruffy

Origin of dandruffy

From dandruff + -y.

Questions about dandruffy

What does dandruffy mean?
Dandruffy means like dandruff; scurfy.
What part of speech is dandruffy?
Dandruffy is an adjective.

Words near dandruffy in the dictionary

  1. dandruffed
  2. dandruffing
  3. dandruffless
  4. dandrufflike
  5. dandruffs
  6. dandruffy
  7. Dandry
  8. dands
  9. Dandurand
  10. Dandurands
  11. dandy

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