Wordie: Scarf: Comments

Comment by jennarenn, 3 months ago

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:15:19 +0000

c_b, are we thinking of the same middle schooler? She...no...no...?

Comment by Asativum, 6 months ago

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:55:41 +0000

And here I always thought WeirdNet's proclivities amounted to a feature, not a bug.

Comment by seanahan, 6 months ago

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:07:52 +0000

John, scarf as listed above is the first of the verb senses. The noun senses, which are in a different synset, has the expected article of clothing. Perhaps that is the problem.

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:13:10 +0000

Yes, that's how my family tends to use the word too. I never realized it derived from hippy-speak, though. :-)

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:14:34 +0000

That's why I listed it: the hippy usage of scarf was 'to eat quickly'.

Comment by plethora, 6 months ago

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:00:26 +0000

Honestly? The first thing that comes to my mind is actually my brother's usage. To scarf something down is to eat it very quickly. We had lots of words for that in my house. Scoff, mung, gullet, and wolf, to name a few.

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:54:06 +0000

Okay, if you hear the word scarf, what meaning comes quickly to mind? Surely not this one. It may have some gravitas, somewhere, but it's very odd. I don't get it at all. It may be my childhood, but ...

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:13:47 +0000

You're right; it isn't funny. I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm merely laughing at the fact that it's the first definition to pop up under this word--which is so WeirdNet it's just...well, weird.

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:43:57 +0000

I first heard this meaning for the word when a local middle-schooler died. I can see the humor in WeirdNet but this particular meaning isn't that funny to me.

Comment by John, 6 months ago

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:38:50 +0000

HA! Topherclay, WordNet, the source for the definitions, supposedly provides the most common usage, and the code dutifully tries to order them along those lines. Not sure if it was my code or theirs that smurphed up, but something has gone horribly wrong.

Either that, or "scarfing" has skyrocketed in popularity.

Comment by John, 6 months ago

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:38:50 +0000

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:28:48 +0000

Mother of pearl....This one must win a prize.

Comment by Topherclay, 6 months ago

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:57:57 +0000

One must assume the definitions provided are shown in no particularly organized order.

Comment by seanahan, 6 months ago

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:02:12 +0000

My reaction to this was "Oh My God" following by laughing out loud, and two more iterations of that, followed by a hardy WTF, and one more "Oh My God" for good measure.

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:06:55 +0000

WEIRDNET!!!!!!!!!!!