EGAVE

scruffy

About 0.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Untidy in appearance; scrubby; shabby.
    A scruffy little dog came scampering down the road.
  2. adjective Scurfy.
  3. 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".
  4. noun An arctic fox.

Similar words

seedy worn scraggly raggy frowsy scrabbly scratty scruffy chic scuffy frowzled

Often followed by

and little beard old looking appearance man clothes young

Word family

scruffier scruffiest scruffily scruffiness scruffinesses

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