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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Scarmy #207498 10/03/2012 5:37 PM Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 1 Jay Trien stranger Jay Trien stranger Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 1 Does anyone know the word scarmy and what it means? Can't find it anywhere, but perhaps I have spelled it incorrectly. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Scarmy Jay Trien #207499 10/03/2012 7:58 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 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?! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Scarmy tsuwm #207514 10/04/2012 9:49 PM Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 956 Auckland, New Zealand olly old hand olly old hand Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 956 Auckland, New Zealand of an equally negative connote is Smarmy a wordy I still here bandied around these parts. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Scarmy olly #207515 10/04/2012 10:54 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass psst.. olly. did you read my post entire? or are you just piling on. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Scarmy tsuwm #207516 10/05/2012 1:47 AM Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 956 Auckland, New Zealand olly old hand olly old hand Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 956 Auckland, New Zealand ha... missed the last line. Which brings to mind Snarmy Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Scarmy olly #207525 10/05/2012 11:18 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Scarmy Jay Trien #209129 01/18/2013 6:13 AM Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 1 melmoth stranger melmoth stranger Joined: Jan 2013 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! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Scarmy melmoth #209135 01/18/2013 3:40 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 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 Last edited by tsuwm; 01/18/2013 3:59 PM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  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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