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Scruffy

//ˈskɹaf.i// adj, name, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Untidy in appearance; scrubby; shabby.

    "A scruffy little dog came scampering down the road."

  2. 2
    Scurfy.
Adjective
  1. 1
    shabby and untidy wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A given name for a dog.
Noun
  1. 1
    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". informal
  2. 2
    An arctic fox. slang

    "For quotations using this term, see Citations:scruffy."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From scruff + -y.

Etymology 2

From scruff + -y.

Etymology 3

From scruffy.

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