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dandruff, dandriff|ˈdændrəf, -ɪf|
Forms: 6 dandrif, 6–7 -ruffe, -raff(e, 7 -ruf, -riffe, 7– -ruff, -riff; also 6–7 dandro, 8–9 (esp. U.S.) dander.
[Of unknown origin.
For conjectures, see Wedgwood, Edward Müller, Skeat: nothing satisfactory has been suggested.]
Dead scarf-skin separating in small scales and entangled in the hair; scurf.
1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde iv. vi. (1634) 198 They that haue blacke hayre haue more store of Dandruffe then others. 1601Holland Pliny xx. vi, The iuice of Garlick being taken in drink clenseth the head from dandruffe. 1611Cotgr., Crasse de la teste, Dandriff; the skales that fall from the head, etc. in combing. 1730Swift Poems, Lady's Dressing-Room, Combs..Fill'd up with Dirt..Sweat, Dandriff, Powder, Lead and Hair. 1866Youatt Horse xv. 342 The scales which fall off in the shape of dandriff.
β1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Caspa de cabeça, Dandro, Furfures capitis. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 53 To breed Lice and Dandro, after the manner of your Irish. 1786Sportsman's Dict. G g viij, Some horses have neither scales, dander, or scabs. a1800Spirit of Farmer's Museum (1801) 278 An infant child..had ever since its birth, been grievously afflicted with a certain disorder in the head, called by the learned, ‘the dander, or dandriff’. 1860J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career viii. 131 A young man that..keeps the dander all off his coat collar..always makes a good husband. 1875― Sevenoaks v. 65 I've took more nor three quarts o' dander out iv 'is hide. 1876Whitby Gloss., Dander, a slight scurf on the skin.
attrib.1668Dryden Evening's Love iv. iii, There's the dandriff comb you lent me.
Hence ˈdandruffy a., scurfy.
1858Mayne Reid in Chamb Jrnl. IX. 333 A white dandruffy surface was exhibited. |