Skip to main content

scarf-n-barf

An eating disorder where the person takes in great quantities of food only to puke them up again to remain petit.
Shelby keeps her figure by sticking to the scarf-n-barf diet.
by Alienskumboy March 5, 2005
mugGet the scarf-n-barf mug.

Scarf-wearer

From unnecessary scarf wearer. This is a person of western background, usually Caucasian, found in Cairo, Egypt. Not all westerners in Cairo are scarf-wearers: scarf-wearers are people who work for NGOs or similar, and are studying Arabic. The term stems from their ubiquitous habit of draping at least one scarf bought from Khan el Khalili, the old market, around themselves in an effort to appear "ethnic" and in their fervour to kowtow to what they believe are Egyptian norms. In reality, they end up dressed more modestly than the weather or the culture necessitates. Female scarf-wearers will also love long flowing skirts and dresses with no particular shape, birkenstocks or leather Jesus sandals, stringy jewellery, and will wear no makeup. Their hair will also be uncared for. Inevitably they will have a massive bag with them made of hemp or bedouin cloth. Male scarf-wearers will have ill-fitting trousers also made of hemp, scraggly t-shirts or "ethnic" shirts bought from Khan el Khalili, and the most radical practitioners may have a Palestinian kuffiya draped around their necks. They will have longish unkempt hair and beards. All of these people will have an Arabic textbook on their person.
Scarf-wearers will divide their time between "real" parts of Cairo, looking around and doing good works and buying ironic things, Dahab, where they will smoke up on cushions by the Red Sea, and going to nice bars and parties in Cairo with Egyptian guys who want to have sex with them. Whenever possible they will eat Egyptian street food, really courting disaster. After around a year spent in Egypt, they usually return to wearing the appropriate amount of scarves and real trousers and doing something with their hair.
Girl: Have you met your new American co-worker yet?
NGO chick: Yeah, she eats foul and taamiya every day. I haven't seen her arms yet even though it is August. She's a hardcore scarf-wearer.
by forsoothsayer January 1, 2009
mugGet the Scarf-wearer mug.
Related Words

Scarf Down

To tastelessly stuff your face with food.
Whenever you eat Mexican, you inherently scarf down your food.
by Shabbybear January 9, 2015
mugGet the Scarf Down mug.

Scarf Girl

A yuppie female who wears a designer (or any kind) of scarf on a 60*+ day simply because it's "in style". Usually paired with a NORTHFACE jacket vest over a sweater and jeans tucked into said persons UGGs.
A scarf girl is any female with above said atire

"Jesus those scarf girls wont sit the fuck down, I can't see a damn thing that is going on on the field!"
by OB and Popo December 9, 2008
mugGet the Scarf Girl mug.

scarf it down

Extended form of scarf, and used especially when time is of the essence.
Dude, we gotta catch that plane in two minutes and you've only half finished your burger. Better scarf it down on the way to the gate.
by Dennis The Tiger September 29, 2005
mugGet the scarf it down mug.

Scarf Dude

1. A young man without any ambition or job who leeches off of family, friends, or complete strangers for money, food, and a place to stay.

2. A man who eats all of your food while you are not looking.
Cody is such a scarf dude, he drank my last Mountain Dew!

My sister's boyfriend is a real scarf dude! He lives with her and she pays for everything. He won't even get a job. What a complete loser!
by Nevorick December 5, 2011
mugGet the Scarf Dude mug.

Scarf Girl

one who displays the following characteristics: Enjoys listening to empowering acoustic female artists(ie indigo girls,lesbian music), lets hair fly freely like her spirit, wears exotic accessorys most likely made in third world country to support supressed women, enjoys hemp bags in natural patterns and colors, a knack for knitting is a must if you want to participate in scarffy gatherings(bread baking is also a helpful skill to adopt), and of course a vibrant idividualized scarf....yet they also still have the money to drive an escalade and wear an array of Uggs(ie animal parts)
Hey Scarf Girl dont forget to bring your exotic wooden flute to our bread baking session. I know it will really help us Take Back the Night.
by Sixela Enitsirk December 20, 2008
mugGet the Scarf Girl mug.

Share this definition

Sign in to vote

We'll email you a link to sign in instantly.

Or

Check your email

We sent a link to

Open your email