scruffy

adj

1. Untidy in appearance; scrubby; shabby.

   “A scruffy little dog came scampering down the road.”

   “scruffy clothes”

   “scruffy man”

   “scruffy outfit”

   “"So you wanna be a rock 'n roll star?!" screams the centerspread of a scruffy rag produced by the Boston activist group Rock Against Sexism (R.A.S.) Amid a jumbled collage picturing shaggy-headed, bare-chested, "fuckin' awesome" white guy rockers, photo captions tell us how to succeed at rock 'n roll.”

2. Scurfy.

noun

1. (informal)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".
2. (slang)An arctic fox.

   “For quotations using this term, see Citations:scruffy.”

name

1. A given name for a dog.