What is "scruby"

Usage examples of "scruby".

Apparently the Coroner is strictly within his rights, although Scruby feels he may come in for considerable censure.

He was in a trench known as the Old Kent Road when Scruby Andrews came limping towards him.

John Hopkins and his partner Geoffrey Scruby, supposedly the two toughest kids in my class, I tried to avoid the fight they demanded, mostly because I was arrogant enough to believe that my status as future world welterweight champion made it inappropriate for me to be a street fighter.

Snotnose walked up to Scruby and stabbed him in the chest with his forefinger.

Mrs Boxall or help Granpa in the garden or play a little snooker down at the Impala Hotel with John Hopkins and Geoffrey Scruby and some of the other guys all of whom, like me, were going to boarding school.