dandruffy

English

Etymology

From dandruff +‎ -y.

Adjective

dandruffy (comparative more dandruffy, superlative most dandruffy)

  1. Like dandruff; scurfy.
  2. Suffering from dandruff; marked by the presence of dandruff.
    • 1969, Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City, HarperCollins, published 1993, page 33:
      A man in shabby dinner clothes and sleeked-down dandruffy hair came forward, already disapproving.
    • 2004, T R Pearson, True Cross:
      The place was dark and musty, and the same sullen guard lazed about in his dandruffy blazer.
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