Scrappy vs Rude - What's the difference?
scrappy | rude |
Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency.
(informal) Having an aggressive spirit; inclined to fight or strive.
* 2012 , Mark Rice-Oxley, Underneath the Lemon Tree
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Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.
tough, robust.
undeveloped, unskilled, basic.
* 2 Corinthians 11:6 (KVJ)
* (rfdate), Rudyard Kipling, The Conundrum of the Workshops
* 1767 , Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society
hearty, vigorous; (found particularly in the phrase rude health).
As adjectives the difference between scrappy and rude
is that scrappy is consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency while rude is bad-mannered.scrappy
English
Adjective
(er)- In those days PGS [Portsmouth Grammar School] was full of sadistic staff and scrappy boys called things like Smudger, Muzz and Titch.
Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.}}
Synonyms
* (fragmentary): disconnected * (aggressive): feisty; pugnaciousrude
English
(mismatch between senses and translations)Adjective
(er)- The girl was so rude to her boyfriend by screaming at him for no reason.
- But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge
- When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
- Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;
- And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
- Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
- It might be apprehended, that among rude nations, where the means of subsistence are procured with so much difficulty, the mind could never raise itself above the consideration of this subject