scruffy
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈskɹʌf.i/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈskɹaf.i/
- Rhymes: -ʌfi
Adjective
[edit]scruffy (comparative scruffier, superlative scruffiest)
- Untidy in appearance; scrubby; shabby.
- A scruffy little dog came scampering down the road.
- scruffy clothes
- scruffy man
- scruffy outfit
- 1987 December 13, Elizabeth Pincus, “Rock Against Sexism”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 22, page 16:
- "So you wanna be a rock 'n roll star?!" screams the centerspread of a scruffy rag produced by the Boston activist group Rock Against Sexism (R.A.S.) Amid a jumbled collage picturing shaggy-headed, bare-chested, "fuckin' awesome" white guy rockers, photo captions tell us how to succeed at rock 'n roll.
- Scurfy.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]untidy in appearance
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See also
[edit]Noun
[edit]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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