A fork of Rural Dictionary
1. An adjective referring to anything that goes beyond trendy and hip.
2. An adjective meaning anything that is unnecessarily trendy and serving no true function.
The word has become commonplace as a substitute for using the term hipster.
Mary: I've switched to only drinking herbal teas from fair-trade shops.
Jane: Mary, you are so scarfy.
A scarfy is a pretentious indie or theatre kid, who would usually engage in activities such as eating their lunch in the photography room or spending free blocks in the "art hallway." They generally listen to horrible music which usually consists of acoustics too quiet to hear, extremely loud drums, and vocals that give you a migrain, which they may think are "deep" or "profound" but are actually complete and utter horse shit. They are characterized by the scarfs they wear year round.
Did you hear about David? Yeah, what a shame, 1 month of being in theatre and he's already a scarfy.
A Kiwi university student. Specifically, a student at the University of Otago in Dunedin.
person 1: "There were heaps of scarfies at $1 draft night at the Captain Cook pub."
Person 2: "No shit"