scarf
verb/skɑːf/
/skɑːrf/
(North American English) (British English scoff)
[intransitive, transitive] (informal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they scarf | /skɑːf/ /skɑːrf/ |
| he / she / it scarfs | /skɑːfs/ /skɑːrfs/ |
| past simple scarfed | /skɑːft/ /skɑːrft/ |
| past participle scarfed | /skɑːft/ /skɑːrft/ |
| -ing form scarfing | /ˈskɑːfɪŋ/ /ˈskɑːrfɪŋ/ |
- scarf (something) to eat a lot of something quicklyWord Originverb 1960s: variant of scoff in the sense ‘eat quickly and greedily’.
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