Meaning
A scruffy, low-class, or good-for-nothing person — someone rough, unkempt, and of no standing, dismissed as worthless riff-raff. As an adjective, 'cruff' means shabby, cheap, and low-quality, of a thing or a person. A cutting insult, it looks down hard on the coarse and the down-at-heel, branding them beneath respect, and it sits with 'buguyaga', 'wutliss', and 'butu' in the well-stocked Jamaican vocabulary of contempt for the ragged, the ill-bred, and the of-no-account.
Examples
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She nah deal wid no cruff.
She won't deal with any low-class riff-raff.
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Dem tun up like a set a cruff.
They showed up like a bunch of scruffy nobodies.
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Dat a cruff behaviour.
That's shabby, low-class behaviour.
Origin
From 'scruff'/'scruffy' — a scruffy, low-class person; a dismissive Jamaican insult.
How it’s used
A dismissive term for a low-class, scruffy person; also adjective 'shabby'. Compare 'wutless', 'dibby-dibby'.