scruffy adj : shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain [syn: seedy] [also: scruffiest, scruffier]

English

Adjective

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1. untidy in appearance

Translations

• Finnish: suttuinen, epäsiisti
• Russian: неряшливый
• Spanish: Desaliñado

Related terms

• scruffiness

See also

• scruff

Scruffy can refer to several things:

• Scruffy, the name of a recurring character in the television show Futurama
• A character from the computer-animated series, Pet Alien
• Neats vs. scruffies, in the field of artificial intelligence, a school of thought that prefers empiricism to formalism
• A three part mini series "Scruffy" which originally aired as an ABC Weekend Special in 1980, and the title character of the series
• The dog on the television show The Ghost & Mrs Muir
• The cat in the 1990 movie Madhouse
• Scruffy the Pig on Full House

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