Meaning

2 senses
  1. (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".

  2. (slang)An arctic fox.

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:scruffy.

Examples

18 sentences
  1. Tom noticed a scruffy old dog following him.

  2. Tom noticed that a scruffy old dog was following him.

  3. Sami saw a scruffy old dog.

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  4. Tom looked scruffy, like a homeless person.

  5. He wears scruffy clothes and has an unkempt beard.

Forms

plural: scruffies
Singularscruffy
Pluralscruffies

regular

See also

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