scarf

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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