| 单词 | scruffy-looking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasscruffy-looking b. Shabby, mean, dirty; slovenly, messy, untidy. Also in combinations, as scruffy-looking adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] > dirty and mean ungoderlyc1400 sluttish?1529 squalid1596 scrubbing1603 sordid1611 snotty1681 frowzy1710 grub1719 seedy1725 unkempt1838 grubby1844 crumby1859 ratty1867 scruffy1871 scrutty1914 scummy1932 ribby1936 raunchy1937 sleazy1941 scroungy1948 manky1958 skanky1963 grungy1965 scungy1966 scuzzy1969 scrungy1974 skeevy1976 1871 ‘M. Twain’ Screamers ii. 16 When he'd got the blues, and feel kind o' scruffy, aggravated, and disgusted..he would curl up..and go to sleep. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 253 Scruffy, dirty: slovenly: untidy in appearance. 1931 Star 8 May 6/3 Anyone who has travelled through lottery countries and seen the hundreds of scruffy ticket-shops in the cities. 1935 Punch 5 June 656/1 ‘Mine,’ said the scruffy-looking chap who had started by borrowing a match, ‘is a tragedy of jealousy.’ 1940 E. Blunden Poems 1930–40 204 While I leisured it so, from the verge of the street Those scruffy old weeds in a flash had me beat. 1951 W. H. Auden Nones (1952) 29 A rather scruffy-looking god Descends in a machine. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 May 274/1 Always late, crumpled and scruffy, perpetually in debt, hourly expecting the sack, Greare takes refuge..in Mittyesque fantasies. 1967 A. N. Sherwin-White Racial Prejudice in Imperial Rome i. 4 It is because they..live..in a scruffy fashion, following the impulses and necessities of beasts. 1974 N. Freeling Dressing of Diamond 122 His chin was badly shaved: it gave him a dirty look, and sort of scruffy. < as lemmas |
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