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Frumpy vs Scruffy - What's the difference?

frumpy | scruffy |

As adjectives the difference between frumpy and scruffy

is that frumpy is dowdy, unkempt, or unfashionable while scruffy is untidy in appearance.

As a noun scruffy is

{{cx|informal|lang=en}} 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".

frumpy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Dowdy, unkempt, or unfashionable.
  • She came to the door in a frumpy housedress and bedroom slippers.
  • (dated) Ill- or bad-tempered.
  • scruffy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • untidy in appearance
  • See also

    * scruff

    Noun

    (scruffies)
  • 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".