Crossword-Solution: SCRUFF
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scruff | n. | Scurf. |
| Scruff | n. | The nape of the neck; the loose outside skin, as of the back of the neck. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “SCRUFF”
| Clue | Answers |
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| region Neck and neck | 1 answer |
| Where kittens are lifted | 1 answer |
| Place to pick up a cat | 1 answer |
| Part of the neck(6) | 1 answer |
| More than just a five o'clock shadow | 1 answer |
| Cat pickup spot | 1 answer |
| Cat's neck | 1 answer |
| Handle for a pup? | 1 answer |
| Neck back | 2 answers |
| Neck region | 2 answers |
| Place to pick up a kitten | 2 answers |
| Nape of the neck. | 2 answers |
| untidy chap | 2 answers |
| neck back of | 3 answers |
| Neck area | 4 answers |
| Nape | 5 answers |
| Back of the neck | 5 answers |
| UNTIDY person | 6 answers |
| BACK OF THE NECK AND NECK | 10 answers |
| A DIRTY OR UNCLEAN PERSON | 11 answers |
| back of neck | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEAZEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SCRUFF (5)
Mugambi, on his part, clung closely to Tarzan, so that the ape-man could scarce control his laughter at the pitiable condition to which the chief’s fear had reduced him; but at length the white took the great cat by the scruff of the neck and, dragging it quite close to the Wagambi, slapped it sharply upon the nose each time that it growled at the stranger.
Sea Catch had just finished his forty-fifth fight one spring when Matkah, his soft, sleek, gentle-eyed wife, came up out of the sea, and he caught her by the scruff of the neck and dumped her down on his reservation, saying gruffly: “Late as usual.
They weren't taken along in carriages-and-four, either; they were mostly dragged along by the scruff of the neck.
Finally the man, too, got angry, and jumped down and kicked the dog, and then took it by the scruff of the neck and half dragged and half threw it on the tombstone on which the seat is fixed.
Fosh-bal-soj listened to their complaints and then with a sudden sweep of his right hand seized Bradley by the scruff of the neck and hurled him sprawling through the doorway upon the floor of the chamber.
Quotes with SCRUFF (3)
Is there any point asking what you're going to make me do on Sunday?''Not really.'Okay. 'Is there any point asking what you're going to do to me?'He grinned wickedly. 'Not really.'Fabulous. 'Does it involve the use of a safe word?''That will depend entirely on you.' Noah moved impossibly closer, just inches away. A few freckles disappeared into the scruff on his jaw. 'I'll be gentle,' Noah added. My breath caught in my throat as he looked at me from beneath those lashes, ruin…
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.
You think that I am naive, but it is you who are naive. You have no idea what is happening inside of you when you look at a painting. You think that you are getting close to art voluntarily, enticed by its beauty, that this intimacy is taking place in an atmosphere of freedom and that delight is being born in you spontaneously, lured by the divine rod of Beauty. In truth, a hand has grabbed you by the scruff of the neck, led you to this painting and has thrown you to your kne…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1964–2020).