[ˈskrʌfi], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- shabby and untidy or dirty
(e.g: a teenager in scruffy jeans and a baggy T-shirt)

- (of a man's face) having short, bristly hairs as a result of not having been shaved for a while
(e.g: his employer has got used to seeing his face becoming scruffier each spring)


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Origin:
mid 17th century (in the sense ‘covered with scurf’): from scruff ‘scurf’, variant of scurf, + -y. The sense ‘shabby’ dates from the late 19th century