British slang for looking rough, unkempt, or generally scruffy — like you got dressed in the dark and haven't met a hairbrush recently.
British slang for looking rough, unkempt, or generally scruffy — like you got dressed in the dark and haven't met a hairbrush recently. Someone who's grufty might have muddy clothes, messy hair, or just that overall disheveled energy. It's a gently critical term without being too harsh — more descriptive than cruel. You'd hear it from a mum telling her kid to clean up before dinner or friends giving someone a good-natured ribbing about their appearance.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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Dirty, unwashed, unclean.
British colloquial for someone or something that looks scruffy, unkempt, or a bit rough around the edges — thin and ragged rather than deliberately dishevelled. You might describe a scratty flat, a scratty outfit, or a scratty-looking stranger. It implies not quite dirty but definitely not put-together, with a slight edge of sympathy. Common in northern England and well understood across the UK.
(figurative) Disreputable, sordid.
(Australia, slang) A dirty person.
He stumbled in from the garden looking completely grufty, with mud on his knees and leaves in his hair.
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(UK) scruffy.
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