scruffy

/ˈskɹʌf.i/

adj 2noun 2name 1

Collocations

ADJ.

homeless, little, long, old

VERB + SCRUFFY

bit, like, look, looked, noticed, saw, see, wears

SCRUFFY + NOUN

beard, clothes, dog, guy, i'll, man, people, punk

Definitions

adj

Untidy in appearance; scrubby; shabby.

A scruffy little dog came scampering down the road.

scruffy clothes

Scurfy.

noun

An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that intelligence is too complicated (or computationally intractable) to be solved with the sorts of homogeneous system favoured by the "neats".

An arctic fox.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:scruffy.

name

A given name for a dog.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — shabby and untidy

seedy

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

A scruffy little dog came scampering down the road.

Wiktionary

scruffy clothes

Wiktionary

scruffy man

Wiktionary

For quotations using this term, see Citations:scruffy.

Wiktionary

When I was young, I was a bit scruffy and there were times when I didn't take a bath for up to two weeks during the summer.

Tatoeba · #632043

Tom is scruffy, isn't he?

Tatoeba · #3730468

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, scruffy is marked as informal, slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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