Scruffed

How he looked: Suited up and de-scruffed for Washington, but otherwise the same pensive emo dreamboat you see on the screen. ❋ The Reliable Source (2011)

These prepsters uptown haven't quite scruffed up enough for flannel and tweed in the city. ❋ Cator Sparks (2010)

So, at home you start — for just seconds at a time — getting the kitten to the point she can tolerate lying on her back, or being scruffed, for example, or having her hind end handled, so none of this feels foreign at the vet's. ❋ Unknown (2011)

My hands get scruffed from taking out my passport and boarding pass - again and again -- before boarding. ❋ La Carmina (2011)

He had strong-looking shoulders, and life goals, and a dog he scruffed under the neck and crooned at. ❋ DEB CALETTI (2010)

She twisted me in a slow circle, her pointed finger hopping from a weeper with huge biceps and teary hangdog eyes to an albino blond to an artfully scruffed guy, bare from the waist up and dosed out on Xers, who happened to be a dead ringer for Walker, my org ex. ❋ Robin Wasserman (2010)

We scruffed the necks of our own cats, who knew we were leaving them for a big trip and were already huffy and pissed, and we climbed into the VW and roared the water-cooled 1.9-liter twenty-two-year-old engine and pulled away from the curb. ❋ Peter Heller (2010)

His black lively eyes roamed over the cottage, taking in the scruffed rug. the meagre grate, the shabbiness of the wallpaper. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The original recyclers, they opened free stores and touted the beat-up used clothes ethos, from mis-shaped hats to scruffed up shoes — and on 20-year-old bodies, the look worked. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I still enjoy recounting that on an occasion when I stopped in to meet Mark Silverman, Chafee's then foreign policy adviser who now heads government affairs for the International Committee of the Red Cross, I found a bunch of scruffed up "farrier licenses" that Linc Chafee had had over the years mounted and framed in as nearly a scruffed up manner. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If he walked up to me in a bar with that slicked-back sensitive man ponytail and half-scruffed face and metro-fabulous suit I would run away and hide. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He rubbed his ears and scruffed him back and forth until Elvis howled. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I wrapped and scruffed the cats, Rob opened their jaws and pinged the pills at the backs of their throats. ❋ Ailbhe (2003)

Her naked feet scruffed nervously at the hard - beaten dirt floor. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2003)

Mr. Moody's scruffed up scruffed up you pep! you pep! oh yeah you pep! check that out scruffed up you pep! carefully you pep! carefully you pep! ❋ Smith, Mark E., 1957 Mar. 5- (1996)

Man, I was so scruffed after those [837] hits of PCP, those 5471 [cigs] of dope, and that [quart] of cocaine poured into me with that IV tube. Woah. ❋ Katsu Moriyama (2003)

See definition. The scruffing [procedure] usually follows an [up and down] motion as if the performing partner is [nodding] yes. ❋ Chumborg (2006)

Who is [going] to [make] the scruffing [for breakfast]? ❋ FirstLady (2013)

Where is [Todd]? He is probably in his [room] [scruffing]. ❋ Scruffington (2010)

"[Chewy] was scruffingall [over the couch]." ❋ Eye_Shot_First (2017)

[Patrick] Kobelis ❋ A Nice Person (2003)

Last night [Kelli] and I were having sex and my two day old [beard] lead to severe [scruffing] around her neck and "other" areas. ❋ Scruffer (2008)

Psychologically, neck scruffing works well on [ferrets] as a way of [telling] them "Hey, I am your new parental [figure]; you need to listen to me". ❋ Ozzy Nelson, PeTrainer (2006)