English
Etymology
scruff + -y
Pronunciation
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)
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- 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)
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See also
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".
