"scurfy" meaning in English

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          "word": "northern scurfy Quaker moth"
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          "word": "scurfy pea"
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          "ref": "1848 December, “Pacific Ocean: The Island of Bornabi”, in The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, volume 17, number 12, page 647:",
          "text": "Many of these natives, especially the lower classes, and fishermen, have their skins disfigured in a singular manner, by a sort of scurfy disease, similar to the ring-worm, or rather to a person whose skin was peeling off from the effects of the sun.",
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          "text": "\"[A]nd who do you think were sittting there? Why, my mother and your father of course, both mending boots; and all of a sudden my mother gave your father such a blow with an old boot, that the scurf flew out of his hair!\" \"There you tell a lie,\" shouted the princess; \"my father never was scurfy!\"",
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        "Characterized by scurf; covered with scurf."
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          "word": "scurvy"
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          "roman": "pokrit s pǎrhot",
          "sense": "characterized by scurf, scabby",
          "word": "покрит с пърхот"
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          "sense": "characterized by scurf, scabby",
          "word": "hilseilevä"
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          "sense": "characterized by scurf, scabby",
          "word": "schorfig"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "characterized by scurf, scabby",
          "word": "verschorft"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "characterized by scurf, scabby",
          "word": "verkrustet"
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "characterized by scurf, scabby",
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      "roman": "pokrit s pǎrhot",
      "sense": "characterized by scurf, scabby",
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      "sense": "characterized by scurf, scabby",
      "word": "hilseilevä"
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      "sense": "characterized by scurf, scabby",
      "word": "schorfig"
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