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scruffy
UK /ˈskɹʌf.i/ US /ˈskɹʌf.i/
adj 2noun 2name 1
Definitions
adj
1
Untidy in appearance; scrubby; shabby.
A scruffy little dog came scampering down the road.
scruffy clothes
2
Scurfy.
noun
1
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".
2
An arctic fox.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:scruffy.
name
1
A given name for a dog.
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