scrunkly

A wonderfully expressive informal word that covers a range of negative qualities: being small and mean, stingy and miserly, or just plain poor and bare. If someone calls you scrunty, they're not paying you a compliment — you're either being tight with money, looking a bit pathetic, or generally coming up short. It's the kind of old-fashioned British or regional insult that sounds almost comical but lands with surprising sting. Great for describing a thin, disappointing sandwich or a miser who won't buy a round.

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.

(colloquial, chiefly, UK) Thin, meagre; unkempt.