furfur

noun /ˈfɜːfə/

1. a particle of dandruff

   archaic, countable

2. dandruff

   archaic, uncountable

   ‘Aye,’ said WS, still in bed, scratching his baldness, examining the furfur in his fingernails.

Where it comes from

From Latin furfur (“bran”), reduplication of *fur, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰur-, metathesis of *gʰrus- (compare Lithuanian grū́sti (“to grind (barley)”), Ancient Greek χρώς (khrṓs, “skin, husk”)).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry furfur (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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