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Scruffy vs Mangy - What's the difference?

scruffy | mangy |

As adjectives the difference between scruffy and mangy

is that scruffy is untidy in appearance while mangy is afflicted with mange.

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".

    • mangy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Afflicted with mange.
  • Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.
    • We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York.

    Synonyms

    * shabby