Scruffy vs Scrappy - What's the difference?

scruffy | scrappy |


As adjectives the difference between scruffy and scrappy

is that scruffy is untidy in appearance while scrappy is consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency.

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".

scruffy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • untidy in appearance

    • Related terms

    * scruffiness

    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".

    • scrappy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • 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
    • In those days PGS [Portsmouth Grammar School] was full of sadistic staff and scrappy boys called things like Smudger, Muzz and Titch.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
    • , title= 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; pugnacious