Furfur Definition
fûrfər
furfures
noun
Dandruff; scurf.
Webster's New World
Scaly bits; esp., dandruff scales.
Webster's New World
(archaic, countable) A particle of dandruff.
Wiktionary
(archaic, uncountable) Dandruff.
Wiktionary
Origin of Furfur
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From Latin furfur (“bran”), reduplication of *fur, from *gʰur-, metathesis of Proto-Indo-European *gʰrus- (compare Lithuanian grū́sti (“to grind (barley)”), Ancient Greek χρως (chrōs, “skin, husk”)).
From Wiktionary
Latin bran, scales
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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