dandruffy

adj — 2 senses

dandruffy

adj

Etymology From dandruff + -y.

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:

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