Scruffy vs Scrappy - What's the difference?
scruffy | scrappy |
untidy in appearance
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".
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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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
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(er)See also
* scruffNoun
(scruffies)scrappy
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(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.}}