Usually means: Untidy or unkempt in appearance.
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  1. scruffy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scruffy: Merriam-Webster
  3. scruffy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scruffy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scruffy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scruffy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scruffy, scruffy: Wordnik
  8. scruffy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Scruffy, scruffy: Wiktionary
  10. scruffy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scruffy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scruffy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scruffy: Dictionary.com
  14. scruffy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. scruffy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Scruffy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. scruffy: Rhymezone
  18. scruffy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. scruffy: FreeDictionary.org
  20. scruffy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. scruffy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. scruffy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See scruffier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Scruffy)

adjective:  Untidy in appearance; scrubby; shabby.
adjective:  Scurfy.
noun:  (informal) 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".
noun:  Name for a dog.

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