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Scruffy vs Scraggly - What's the difference?

scruffy | scraggly |

As adjectives the difference between scruffy and scraggly

is that scruffy is untidy in appearance while scraggly is rough, scruffy, or unkempt.

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".

    • scraggly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Rough, scruffy, or unkempt.
  • * 1913 , , John Barleycorn , ch. 31:
    • The sunburn of my face, what little of it could be seen through a scraggly growth of beard, had faded to a sickly yellow.
  • * 1980 Nov. 24, John Skow, " In Arizona: A Million Dollar Sale of Cowboy Art," Time :
    • What he painted was scenes of the Old West, cowboys and Indians, cattle and horses. Pictures scraggly with sagebrush.
  • Jagged or uneven; scraggy.
  • * 1916 , , Georgina of the Rainbows , ch. 24:
    • She would be so happy . . . that she wouldn't notice the spelling or the scraggly writing.
  • * 2001 Sep. 7, , " At the MTV Awards: Redheads and Circuses," Time :
    • "I have no idea," the young woman said, checking over the scraggly illegible signature the mystery woman had left her in her autograph book.

    Derived terms

    * scraggliness