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scruffies

scruffies is the plural of scruffy.

Meaning of scruffy

Noun

scruffy (plural scruffies)

  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, Alaska) An arctic fox.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:scruffy.

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Questions about scruffies

What is scruffies the plural of?
Scruffies is the plural of scruffy.

Words near scruffies in the dictionary

  1. scruffballs
  2. scruffbucket
  3. scruffbuckets
  4. scruffed
  5. scruffier
  6. scruffies
  7. scruffiest
  8. scruffily
  9. scruffiness
  10. scruffing
  11. scruffle

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