Scruffy
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scruffy¹
- /ˈskɹʌf.i/ UK, US
- /ˈskɹaf.i/ Australia
Rhymes with -ʌfi
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
English scruff
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English scruffy
From scruff + -y.
adjective scruffier · scruffiest
- Untidy in appearance; scrubby; shabby. A scruffy little dog came scampering down the road.
- Scurfy.
noun scruffies
- 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".
- An arctic fox. For quotations using this term, see Citations:scruffy.
Scruffy²
Where it comes from
From scruffy.
proper noun
- A given name for a dog.
