Scruff

One story in the book involves a fight at a Seal bar between Kyle and a celebrity he calls "Scruff Face."

NYT > Home Page By GREGORY COWLES 2012

It was slow work and a stiff game; but 'Scruff' Mackenzie maneuvered cunningly, with an unconcern which served to puzzle the Sticks.

The Son of the Wolf 2010

Nor had 'Scruff' Mackenzie, for all his seeming carelessness, failed to note these phenomena.

The Son of the Wolf 2010

'Scruff' Mackenzie had looked into the eyes of men before, and he knew it was a man who stood against him; yet he quickened to the glint of light on the steel, to the dominant pulse of his race.

The Son of the Wolf 2010

'Scruff' Mackenzie dimly realized the wild grandeur of the setting as his eyes ranged down the fur-fringed sides in quest of missing faces.

The Son of the Wolf 2010

'Scruff' Mackenzie's two years had taught him the not many hundred words of their vocabulary, and he had likewise conquered their deep gutturals, their Japanese idioms, constructions, and honorific and agglutinative particles.

The Son of the Wolf 2010

'Scruff' Mackenzie bore the earmarks of a frontier birth and a frontier life.

“The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction 2010

'Scruff' Mackenzie bore the earmarks of a frontier birth and a frontier life.

The Son of the Wolf 2010

As has been noted, 'Scruff' Mackenzie was a practical man.

The Son of the Wolf 2010

Though pandemonium raged about him, 'Scruff' Mackenzie held his ground.

The Son of the Wolf 2010