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Snarfed vs Scarfed - What's the difference?

snarfed | scarfed |

As verbs the difference between snarfed and scarfed

is that snarfed is (snarf) while scarfed is (scarf).

snarfed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (snarf)

  • snarf

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang) To eat or consume greedily.
  • He snarfed a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes!
  • *1999 : Marya Hornbacker, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia , page 239
  • Freed from the usual inhibitions, we get home and I snarf down pasta salad right out of the Tupperware container
  • *2000 : Nancy Woodruff, Someone Else's Child , page 40
  • "I'm not going to sit there while you two watch me snarf a whole pie by myself."
  • *2003 : Allen D. Berrien, Powerboat Care and Repair: How to Keep Your Outboard, Sterndrive, Or Gas-Inboard Boat Alive and Well , page 41
  • The old 40-horse models used to snarf up more fuel than today's 90-horse models.
  • (slang) To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette.
  • I snarfed a bunch of freebies from the vendor's booth when he wasn't looking.
  • *1995 : Tom Shanley, Don Anderson, ISA System Architecture , page 296
  • Either write-through or write-back policy caches may snarf the data that the bus master is writing to memory.
  • *1996 : Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs , page 399
  • ... in addition, the embedding enables the designer to snarf features from the underlying language
  • *2001 : Brad A. Myers, Choon Hong Peck, Jeffrey Nicols, Dave Kong, and Robert Miller, Interacting at a Distance Using Semantic Snarfing , in Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Ubiquitous Computing, pages 305-314.
  • Other future applications of the semantic snarfing idea might include classrooms, where students might snarf interesting pieces of content from the instructor's presentation;
  • (slang) To expel fluid or food through the mouth or nostrils accidentally, usually while attempting to stifle laughter with one's mouth full.
  • It was so funny, I snarfed my milk onto my keyboard.
  • (transitive, slang, computing) To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirety; to copy as a whole.
  • I snarfed the whole database into my program.

    scarfed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (scarf)

  • scarf

    English

    (wikipedia scarf)

    Etymology 1

    Probably from . http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/scarf?s=t. The verb is derived from the noun.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=2 citation , passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.  She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
  • A headscarf.
  • (dated) A neckcloth or cravat.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
  • * 1599-1601 , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet), Act 5, Scene 2:
  • My sea-gown scarfed about me.
  • To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
  • Etymology 2

    (the first two definitions) Of uncertain origin. Possibly from (etyl) skarfr, derivative of .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of joint in woodworking.
  • A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
  • A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling.
  • Synonyms
    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shape by grinding.
  • To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, forming a "V" groove for welding adjacent metal plates, metal rods, etc.
  • To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
  • Etymology 3

    Of imitative origin, or a variant of scoff. Alternatively from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, US, slang) To eat very quickly.
  • You sure scarfed that pizza.
    Usage notes
    The more usual form in the UK is scoff.
    Derived terms
    * scarf down

    Etymology 4

    Icelandic (skarfr)?

    Noun

  • (Scotland) A cormorant.
  • (Webster 1913)