scruffy

See also: Scruffy

English

Etymology

scruff +‎ -y

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈskɹʌ.fi/
Rhymes: -ʌfi

Adjective

scruffy (comparative scruffier, superlative scruffiest)

Untidy in appearance.
A scruffy little dog came scampering down the road.
Scurfy.

Derived terms

Translations

untidy in appearance

Catalan: malgirbat (ca), malforjat
Chinese:
Mandarin: 邋遢的
Finnish: suttuinen, epäsiisti (fi)
French: débraillé (fr), négligé (fr)
German: vergammelt (de)
Hungarian: pacuha
Italian: trasandato (it)

Maori: pōrohe, tātarahake
Polish: niechlujny (pl) m
Portuguese: desgrenhado (pt)
Russian: неря́шливый (ru) (nerjášlivyj), (of hair) нечёсаный (ru) (nečósanyj), (of hair) взъеро́шенный (ru) (vzʺjeróšennyj)
Serbo-Croatian: neuredan (sh), zapušten (sh)
Spanish: desaliñado (es), zarrapastroso (es)
Swedish: ovårdad, sjabbig (sv), tilltufsad
Turkish: dağınık (tr)

See also

scruff

Noun

scruffy (plural scruffies)

(informal) 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".

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