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Scruffy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Shabby; untidy.

adj. Chiefly British Scaly; scabby.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. untidy in appearance

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Same as scurfy.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. shabby and untidy

Word Usage

"But by carefully cultivating the small growing space available at his home on what he describes as a "scruffy" London terrace, he is "having fun" and "eating some great food.""

Equivalent

worn

Cross Reference

scruff

Variant

scruffiest scruffier

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Fluffy buffy fluffy huffy puffy stuffy toughie

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

graying stubbly scraggly honey-colored straggly bristly deaf-mute ragtag salt-and-pepper well-trimmed