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Scuff   /skəf/   Listen
noun
Scuff  n.  The back part of the neck; the scruff. (Prov. Eng.)


verb
Scuff  v. t.  (past & past part. scuffed; pres. part. scuffing)  
1.
To cause a blemish on the surface of, by scraping against an object; as, he scuffed his shoe on the ground.
2.
To scrape with one's foot; as, he scuffed the chair leg with his shoe.


Scuff  v. i.  (past & past part. scuffed; pres. part. scuffing)  To walk without lifting the feet; to proceed with a scraping or dragging movement; to shuffle.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Scuff" Quotes from Famous Books



... over and over, old thing!" she cried as she raced down the hallway. "Behold me! I never did have a more becoming dress, and Katy loaned me money, till my income begins, to get shoes and a little scuff hat to go with it. Aren't ...
— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter
... was that the bit of quartz was carried down to Springtown; before the winter snows had thought of melting, a town of rude frame huts had sprung up in the hollow below, and Lame Gulch was a flourishing mining-camp. All the rough-scuff of the countryside promptly gathered there, and elbowed, with equal indifference, the honest miner, the less honest saloon-keeper, and the capitalist, the degree of whose claim to that laudatory adjective was not ...
— Peak and Prairie - From a Colorado Sketch-book • Anna Fuller


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