scruffy
Plural: scruffies
Adjective Satellite
- shabby and untidy; ; - Mark Twain
- "a surge of ragged scruffy children"
Adj
- Untidy in appearance; scrubby; shabby.
- Scurfy.
Noun
- 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".
Adjective
- Shabby, unkempt, or disheveled in appearance.
Examples
- A scruffy little dog came scampering down the road.
- His SCRUFFY-looking tiles unexpectedly formed a high-scoring word.
- scruffy clothes
- scruffy man
- scruffy outfit
Origin / Etymology
From scruff + -y.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 18
scruffy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordscruffy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
scruffy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 19
scruffy: valid Words With Friends Word