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Definition of Scruffy
1. Adjective. Shabby and untidy. "He was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"
Definition of Scruffy
1. Adjective. untidy in appearance ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scruffy
1. shabby [adj -FIER, -FIEST] - See also: shabby
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scruffy
Literary usage of Scruffy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"scruffy, scurfy. The serpent goes to fenell when he would clear his sight, or
cast oif his old scruffy skin ..."
2. Recommended Country Inns & Pubs of Britain by Hunter Publishing, Incorporated (2004)
"scruffy regularly drinks Blacksheep special. Pub dogs Misty (Beardie) and
Shelley (German Sheperd). Owners cannot walk dogs past pub, without being dragged ..."
3. Phantasmagoria by Montgomery Hughes, David Atkinson (2006)
"The driver had long, blond, scruffy hair with beads at random intervals around it.
He had no shirt on - forgivable, given the weather. ..."
4. Roughing it by Mark Twain (1913)
"An' when he'd git the blues, 'n' feel kind o' scruffy, 'n' aggravated 'n'
disgusted—knowin' as he did, that the bills was runnin' up all the time an' we ..."
5. Roughing it by Mark Twain (1913)
"An' when he'd git the blues, 'n' feel kind o* scruffy, 'n' aggravated 'n'
disgusted—knowin' as he did, that the bills was runnin' up all the time an' we ..."
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