Definitions

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  • adjective dandrufflike
  • adjective Covered in dandruff.

Etymologies

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dandruff +‎ -y

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Examples

  • To her horror, Andrew wraps his long, knightly arms about her, and folds her into his soapy bosom, engulfing her in his world of smells, the ear-waxy, dandruffy, between the legs smells that are part and parcel of his soul.

    Something Better Than This Mary Gaitskill 2010

  • My cats fur was really thin in her belly and she had a skin problem on her belly, and her back was always kind of dandruffy.

    dailycomic Diary Entry dailycomic 2008

  • They ` re loud, dandruffy, some of them are Canadian, but I have to admit they are all really good at their jobs.

    CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2007 2007

  • Another would make the girls in the class brush her dandruffy head of hair!

    Think Progress » Inhofe Attacks Children’s Book on Global Warming 2006

  • Trees are a looked-forward-to treat here in Lancaster, too, what few of them there are being entirely imported, punctuating the landscape like domestic help just itching to escape to a better job: dry, scraggy poplars and messy, dandruffy cottonwoods.

    Shampoo Planet Coupland, Douglas 1992

  • Well, it was a God's mercy that some one washed for you, and it was good clane washin 'she did, I'll bet – and blamed little she got for it, too, while you lay in your bed with your dandruffy hair in a greasy boudoir cap, and had her climb the stairs with your breakfast.

    Purple Springs 1921

  • Also recommended to many advantages homogenous gel texture with an enormous wash oily or dandruffy hair.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • The other of Mrs. Gilbert's "easy" - chairs had a seat of faded and frayed cotton tapestry; there was a lumpy and unstable-looking couch; a yellow washstand with dandruffy varnish and cracked mirror; wall-paper with vast, uncataloguable flowers gangrenous in suggestion; on the ceiling a circle of over-plump dancing Cupids; and over against one wall a huge, broad, dark box that to Mrs. De Peyster's amazed vision suggested an upended coffin, contrived for the comfort of some deceased with remarkable width of shoulder.

    No. 13 Washington Square Leroy Scott 1902

  • Heather: This may sound terrible… but here’s how I keepz mah 3 kitiz from getting too dandruffy….

    I HAS TEH AZMAH - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

  • When you were studying about them in earth sciences with dandruffy old Mr. Andaars, you never thought you’d be in one, did you?

    The Killing Sea Richard Lewis 2006

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