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Shaggy vs Scruffy - What's the difference?

shaggy | scruffy |

As adjectives the difference between shaggy and scruffy

is that shaggy is rough with long or thick hair, fur or wool; unshaven, ungroomed, or unbrushed while scruffy is untidy in appearance.

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".

shaggy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Rough with long or thick hair, fur or wool; unshaven, ungroomed, or unbrushed.
  • * 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
  • They waited until Dorothy awoke the next morning. The little girl was quite frightened when she saw the great pile of shaggy wolves, but the Tin Woodman told her all. She thanked him for saving them and sat down to breakfast, after which they started again upon their journey.
  • Rough; rugged; jaggy.
  • Derived terms

    * shaggy dog story

    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".