Definition: Scruffiness is a term used in the field of linguistics to describe the ability of a word or phrase to sound similar to another word or phrase that has been previously pronounced. It's often used to compare two words when one sounds like the other, and it can be used to measure how well a word fits into the broader context of a language. For example, in English, the word "shark" is frequently compared with "skeptic" because they both sound similar to "