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Topic Options #207498 - 10/03/12 01:37 PM Scarmy Jay Trien stranger Registered: 10/03/12 Posts: 1 Does anyone know the word scarmy and what it means? Can't find it anywhere, but perhaps I have spelled it incorrectly. Top #207499 - 10/03/12 03:58 PM Re: Scarmy [Re: Jay Trien] tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10464 Loc: this too shall pass the Urban Dictionary has an entry for scarm, of some dubiety and a negative response; to wit, scarm 3 up, 4 down Noun; filth or waste. Adj form (scarmy); describing how dirty or filthy a person or object is. "That room is nothin but scarm" "I feel scarmy - I need a showa" perhaps the word you want is smarmy?! Top #207514 - 10/04/12 05:49 PM Re: Scarmy [Re: tsuwm] olly old hand Registered: 12/18/06 Posts: 932 Loc: Auckland, New Zealand of an equally negative connote is Smarmy a wordy I still here bandied around these parts. Top #207515 - 10/04/12 06:54 PM Re: Scarmy [Re: olly] tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10464 Loc: this too shall pass psst.. olly. did you read my post entire? or are you just piling on. Top #207516 - 10/04/12 09:47 PM Re: Scarmy [Re: tsuwm] olly old hand Registered: 12/18/06 Posts: 932 Loc: Auckland, New Zealand ha... missed the last line. Which brings to mind Snarmy Top #207525 - 10/05/12 07:18 AM Re: Scarmy [Re: olly] Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13657 Originally Posted By: olly Which brings to mind Snarmy Interesting. To save y'all the trouble, here is the Urban Dictionary entry on snarmy: Originally Posted By: UrbDic 1. EShuff one who points out things publicly as to point out their authority on non-issues. So when you said "I think that term 'facon' has been around for a while. A vegetarian said it to me about 2 years ago." you were totally being an EShuff. Top #209129 - 01/18/13 01:13 AM Re: Scarmy [Re: Jay Trien] melmoth stranger Registered: 01/18/13 Posts: 1 Just to say that the word scarmy certainly exists in NE English dialect and means dirty,I use it especially when describing dirty windows 'this glass is a bit scarmy'. (My family have always used it so it is at least 60 years old). Did a search for scarmy and found nothing but when did a search for 'scarmy window' found this - http://www.garymcmahon.com/2011/02/i-saw-her-that-one-time.html ...and found it is from a book by a NE author! Top #209135 - 01/18/13 10:40 AM Re: Scarmy [Re: melmoth] tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10464 Loc: this too shall pass this thread is beginning to look a bit smarmy - and it's gone pear-shaped to boot: 1) Eshuff under snarnie is some sort of UD erratum; it has its own entry (under E, where you'd expect it). 2) if you google snarny, many of the 6000+ gh are just typos for smarmy (e.g., a snarmy smile on their face), although there are also a) a suggestion that it is a blend of smarmy and snarky {like} b) a misguided attempt to relate it to every other word that starts out snar* (see http://www.click4everything.com/db/snarmy.html) as to scarmy, I don't know what that's got to do with the price of snarls in Albuquerque, but if you follow the link, you'll see that the proffered usage is from a five(5) paragraph blog entry and not from "a book by a NE author" at all. [sorry, just being snarmy!] -joe bfstkplk, ye olde curmdudgeon Edited by tsuwm (01/18/13 10:59 AM) Top Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. 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