scruffy
adjective
[ ˈskrʌfi ]
• shabby and untidy or dirty.
• "a teenager in scruffy jeans and a baggy T-shirt"
Similar:
shabby,
worn,
down at heel,
shoddy,
ragged,
tattered,
mangy,
sorry,
run down,
disreputable,
untidy,
unkempt,
bedraggled,
messy,
dishevelled,
ungroomed,
ill-groomed,
sleazy,
seedy,
slatternly,
slovenly,
dirty,
squalid,
filthy,
tatty,
the worse for wear,
scuzzy,
grungy,
yucky,
grotty,
raggedy,
• (of a man's face) having short, bristly hairs as a result of not having been shaved for a while.
• "his employer has got used to seeing his face becoming scruffier each spring"
Origin:
mid 17th century (in the sense ‘covered with scurf’): from scruff ‘scurf’, variant of scurf, + -y1. The sense ‘shabby’ dates from the late 19th century.
