Etymology
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scruff + -y
Pronunciation
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Adjective
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scruffy (comparative scruffier, superlative scruffiest)
- Untidy in appearance.
A scruffy little dog came scampering down the road.
scruffy clothes
scruffy man
scruffy outfit
- Scurfy.
Derived terms
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Translations
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untidy in appearance
- Bulgarian: мърляв (bg) (mǎrljav)
- Catalan: malgirbat (ca), malforjat
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 邋遢的
- Finnish: epäsiisti (fi), rähjäinen (fi), nuhjuinen (fi), resuinen
- French: débraillé (fr), négligé (fr)
- German: verwahrlost (de), heruntergekommen (de), verdreckt (de) (coll.), versifft (de) (slang)
- Hungarian: pacuha (hu)
- Italian: trasandato (it)
- Japanese: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: ра́сфрлен (rásfrlen), ва́лкан (válkan), не́чист (néčist)
- Maori: pōrohe, tātarahake, kōhangaweka
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хааш яаш (xaaš jaaš), заваан (mn) (zavaan)
- Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠰᠢ
ᠶᠠᠰᠢ (qasi yasi) ᠵᠠᠪᠠᠭᠠᠨ (ǰabaɣan)
- 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 (sv), sjabbig (sv), tilltufsad
- Turkish: dağınık (tr)
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See also
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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".