scruffy

scruffy
Synonyms and related words:
abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, base, beggarly, beneath contempt, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved, despicable, dingy, dirty, disgusting, dowdy, down-at-heel, down-at-the-heels, dusty, execrable, flagrant, foul, frayed, frazzled, full of holes, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grave, grimy, gross, grubby, grungy, heinous, holey, in rags, in shreds, in tatters, little, low, low-down, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, meretricious, messy, miry, miserable, monstrous, moth-eaten, muddy, nefarious, obnoxious, odious, paltry, patchy, pathetic, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, ragged, raggedy, rank, ratty, reptilian, rubbishy, run-down, sad, scabby, scrubby, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slovenly, small, smirchy, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, sooty, sorry, squalid, tacky, tattered, tatty, threadbare, torn, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unmentionable, untidy, valueless, vile, worthless, wretched

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  • 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… …   Wikipedia

  • Scruffy — est un personnage secondaire de Futurama et exerce le métier de concierge. Il apparait pour la première fois dans le dernier épisode de la première saison (L enfer c est les autres robots) en train de pousser les têtes des Beastie Boys sur scène …   Wikipédia en Français

  • scruffy — 1650s, from scruff dandruff, scurf (late O.E.), variant of SCURF (Cf. scurf) (q.v.). Generalized sense of rough and dirty is from 1871 …   Etymology dictionary

  • scruffy — [adj] rough, bedraggled badly groomed, frowzy*, mangy*, messy, ragged, run down, seedy, shabby, slovenly, tacky*, tattered, threadbare, ungroomed, unkempt, untidy; concepts 485,589 Ant. kempt, smooth, tidy …   New thesaurus

  • scruffy — ► ADJECTIVE (scruffier, scruffiest) ▪ shabby and untidy or dirty. DERIVATIVES scruffily adverb scruffiness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • scruffy — [skruf′ē] adj. scruffier, scruffiest [< dial. scruff, var. of SCURF + Y2] shabby, unkempt, or untidy; grubby scruffily adv. scruffiness n …   English World dictionary

  • scruffy — [[t]skrʌ̱fi[/t]] scruffier, scruffiest ADJ GRADED Someone or something that is scruffy is dirty and untidy. ...a young man, pale, scruffy and unshaven. ...a scruffy basement flat in London. Syn: tatty, shabby …   English dictionary

  • scruffy — UK [ˈskrʌfɪ] / US adjective Word forms scruffy : adjective scruffy comparative scruffier superlative scruffiest untidy or dirty a scruffy old T shirt Derived words: scruffily adverb scruffiness noun uncountable …   English dictionary

  • scruffy — adjective (scruffier; est) Etymology: English dialect scruff something worthless Date: 1871 unkempt, slovenly, shaggy < a scruffy neighborhood > < a scruffy beard > • scruffily adverb • scruffiness …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • scruffy — scruf|fy [ˈskrʌfi] adj [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: scruff messy person (19 21 centuries), from scurf; SCURVY] dirty and untidy ▪ a scruffy old pair of jeans ▪ scruffy shops >scruffily adv ▪ a scruffily dressed man >scruffiness n [U] …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • scruffy — adj. Scruffy is used with these nouns: ↑appearance, ↑beard, ↑hair, ↑jeans …   Collocations dictionary

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