英语词汇dandruff的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	dandruff
词源	dandruff [M16th] The first element is unknown; the second (-ruff) is perhaps related to Middle English rove ‘scurfiness’. Dander, used of similar skin flakes in animals, is a late 18th-century shortening.
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