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Scruffy vs Rusty - What's the difference?

scruffy | rusty |

As adjectives the difference between scruffy and rusty

is that scruffy is untidy in appearance while rusty is affected by rust.

As a noun scruffy

is 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
  • 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".
  • rusty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Affected by rust.
  • Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown.
  • *
  • *:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, withon one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
  • Having red or reddish-brown hair.
  • Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Sam Sheringham, work=BBC
  • , title= Liverpool 0-1 Wolverhampton , passage=Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements.}}
  • Discolored and rancid; reasty.
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  • Derived terms

    * rusty nail

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