SCRUFFY
ADJECTIVES
► BUMMY suggestive of a bum or vagrant; scruffy, unkempt → 1890 colloq., orig. & chiefly US
► DAGGY dirty, scruffy → 1967 Aust. sl.
► ILL-FAURED poor in quality, unattractive, scruffy → 1806 Sc.
► RATTY wretched or in poor condition; nasty; mean; shabby, scruffy, or ragged → 1867 colloq.
► SCAWT scruffy, mean, contemptible, scanty, niggling; short of due measure → c1715 Sc.
► SCOORY ► SCOURIE ► SCOURY ► SCOWRIE ► SCOWRY scruffy, disreputable or nasty in appearance → 1721 Sc.
► SCOOTIE ► SCOOTY low, worthless in character; scruffy → 1882 Sc.
► SCOUTIE-MALOURIE low, worthless in character; scruffy → 1969 Sc.
► WAFF of appearance: suspicious-looking; hangdog, scruffy → 1824 Sc.
NOUNS – PERSON
► BAG OF SHIT TIED UP WITH STRING a clumsy, shapeless, or scruffy person → 1984 UK sl.
► BEARDIE-WEIRDIE ► BEARDY-WEIRDY a man with long hair and/or a beard and as such negatively stereotyped as an ‘intellectual’, eccentric, or fan of radical politics; a scruffy beatnik → 2000 sl.
► DAG a scruffy person; a bit of a character → 1916 Aust. sl.
► DUNGHILL a person likened to a dunghill in being filthy or disgusting in some way, esp. in being morally corrupt or in being very dirty or scruffy → 1542
► SCOWRIE a scruffy, disreputable-looking person; a blackguard, a rascally fellow → 1721 Sc.
► SCRAG a scrawny or scruffy-looking person or animal; a term of derogation for a person → 1845 Amer. dial.
► SCRUFFBAG a scruffy person → 1920s sl.
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