scrimy, adj. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

scrimy adj.

also scrimey

[? SE scratchy (i.e. from fleas/bed-bugs) + grimy]

(US) unpleasant, dirty, run-down.

1925		C. Hume Cruel Fellowship 20: Where did you pick up that scrimey scut?
1946		Mezzrow & Wolfe Really the Blues 169: I was living in a scrimy moth-eaten dump of a furnished room.
1960		(con. 1940s) G. Morrill Dark Sea Running 161: You scrimy little bastard!