dandruff: [16] The word dandruff (or dandriff, as it commonly used to be) first appears, out of the blue, in the mid 16th century, with no known relatives. Its first element, dand-, remains utterly obscure, but the second part may have been borrowed from Old Norse hrufa or Middle Low German rōve, both meaning ‘scab’ (Middle English had a word roufe ‘scab, scurf’, and modern Dutch has roof).
1540s, first element obscure, second element is Northumbrian or East Anglian dialectal huff, hurf "scab," from Old Norse hrufa, from Proto-Germanic *hreufaz, source of Old English hreofla "leper."
双语例句
1. He has very bad dandruff.
他头屑很多。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Every winter he has a problem with dandruff in his hair.
每年冬天头皮屑都困扰着他.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. Can you wash my hair with that dandruff control shampoo, please?
