Scruffy

Definition: Scruffy

Scruffy

Adjective

1. Shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Scruffy

Crosswords: Scruffy

Scruffy. So morbid (Superman II; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

It's probably 'cause you're a bit scruffy. Or it could also be 'cause you haven't met the right girl (Four Weddings and a Funeral; writing credit: Richard Curtis)

Get back fluffy, mash scruffy (Who Let The Dogs Out; performing artist: Baha Men)

Scruffy (1938)

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Books

• A Scruffy Husband Is a Happy Husband and Other Real Stories from the Lighter Side of Marriage (reference)

• Captain Scruffy (The Rainbow Scarecrows) (reference)

• Home Farm Twins Xmas - Scruffy Sca (reference)

• Ode to the Wart Hog: The Story of a Scruffy, Soggy, Fat-As-A-Log Dog (reference)

• Scruffy (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Beginning with "scruffy": scruffy-arsed, scruffy-haired, scruffy-looking.

Albanian

tërë zhul (grimy), i lerosur (sloppy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهلهل (dilapidated, flimsy, lax, rocky, sleazy, slight, slim, thin, tumbledown), ‏وضيع (contemptible, cowardly, grubby, humble, inferior, low, low-grade, lowly, mean, menial, scabby, scaly, scurvy, slavish, slight, snide, vile), ‏حقير (abject, base, beggarly, blackguardly, cheap, despicable, dingy, dirty, frowzy, grubby, ignoble, inferior, insignificant, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, menial, niggling, paltry, pettifogger, petty, pip squeak, pitiable, pitiful, poor, popinjay, rotten, scabby, scaly, scoundrelly, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, shoddy, slavish, slim, slushy, small minded, snide, sod, squalid, swine, tacky, trifling, ungracious, unworthy, varmint, vile, villainous, worthless, wretched), ‏غذر (pesky), ‏خسيس (abject, base, contemptible, dastardly, despicable, ignoble, loon, lousy, low, lowly, mean, paltry, pooch, reptile, ruffian, servile, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, small change, sordid, vile, villainous), ‏بائس (afflicted, cheerless, deplorable, desolate, devil, disconsolate, distressed, forlorn, godforsaken, hapless, heel, helpless, lamentable, measly, miserable, paltry, pathetic, penurious, piteous, pitiful, poor, poverty stricken, ratty, sad, seedy, sickly, sordid, squalid, unfortunate, unhappy, woeful, wretched). (various references)

Bulgarian 

развлечен (dowdy, dowdyish, scrubby, slatternly, unkempt), мърляв (dirty, grubby, raunchy, scrubby, slatternly, slipshod, slovenly), износен (burnt-out, inexpensive, napless, old, outworn, profitable, shabby, shiny, threadbare, well worn, worn out). (various references)

Czech

ošumìlý (disreputable, dowdy, dowdyish, down at heel, seedy, shabby, shoddy, threadbare). (various references)

French

sale, peu soigné, miteux, débraillé. (various references)

German

dreckig (cruddy, dirty, filthy, messy, mucky, raunchily). (various references)

Greek 

βρώμικοσ (dirty, filthy, grubby, mucky, scummy, smudgy), απεριποίητοσ (neglected, sleazy, uncared for, unkempt), απεριποίητος (frowzy), ατημέλητος (slovenly). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוז� ח ומלוכלך. (various references)

Hungarian

ápolatlan (frouzy, frowzy, slatternly, slovenly, unkempt, untidy), satnya (scrogged, scrub, stunted), nyiszlett, elhanyagolt (dingy, down at the heel, forlorn, neglected, raffish, raggedy-ass, raunchy, sleazo, sleazy, uncared for, untended), csenevész (runt, scraggy, scrub, scrubby). (various references)

Italian

trasandato (dowdy, shabby, sleazy, slipshod, slovenly, untidy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

蛮襟 (unconcerned about one's personal appearance). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ば�"から (unconcerned about one's personal appearance). (various references)

Manx

slobbagh (. sloppy, dowdy, floppy, mucky). (various references)

Pig Latin

uffyscray.(various references)

Portuguese

mal-arranjado (messy, slovenly, unkempt), mal vestido (slovenly). (various references)

Russian 

неряшливый (grubby, lax, poky, slatternly, slipshod, slovenly). (various references)

Spanish

desaliñado (blowzy, disheveled, dishevelled, dowdy, dowdyish, down at heel, frowzy, frumpish, messy, neglected, slovenly, tacky, unkempt, untidy). (various references)

Swedish

sjaskig (blowzy, dowdy, flea-bitten, grubby, scrubby, seedy, shabby, sleazy, tattered), sjabbig (down at heel, mangy, ratty, scrubby, seedy, shabby), ovårdad (dishevelled, neglected, ragged, ratty, slovenly, substandard, unkempt, untidy). (various references)

Turkish

pis (augean, black, dingy, dirty, dungy, effing, filthy, foul, frowzy, goatish, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, miasmal, miasmatic, miry, mucky, nasty, obnoxious, obscene, offensive, scummy, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly), dağınık (bedraggled, diffuse, disorganized, dispersed, messy, out of trim, ragged, scattered, sick, straggling, straggly, unkempt, untidy, wild), dökük saçık. (various references)

Ukrainian

неохайний (chatty, dowdy, frowzy, frumpish, grubby, negligent, slapdash, slattern, slatternly, slobbery, sloven, slovenly, soppy, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, unkempt, untidy). (various references)

Misspellings

"Scruffy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cryuff, Mcduffy, Schuyff, scruf. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: scruff, scurfy.

-2 letters: cuffs, curfs, ruffs, scuff, scurf, surfy.

-3 letters: crus, cuff, curf, curs, furs, fury, ruff, scry, surf.

-4 letters: cry, cur, fry, fur.

-5 letters: us.

+2 letters: scruffily.