scruffy
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈskɹʌf.i/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈskɹaf.i/
- Rhymes: -ʌfi
Adjective
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
Translations
untidy in appearance
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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".