scuff

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

1. To scrape the feet while walking.
2. To scrape and roughen the surface of (shoes, etc.)
3. To hit lightly, to brush against.
4. To mishit (a shot on a ball) due to poor contact with the ball.

Noun

1. (attributive, sometimes) A mark left by scuffing or scraping.
2. The sound of a scuff or scrape.
3. (Australia, New-Zealand) A slipper.
4. (Scotland, uncommon) A (sudden) shower of rain or mist.

Noun

1. A scurf; a scale.
2. The back part of the neck; the scruff.

Conceptos

arrastrar

desgaste

Sinónimos

mule

wear

excoriate

wear down

plod

shuffle

drag

abrade

drop

eat

🍽️

eat away

eat up

expend

flay

fool away

fray

fret

get through

glider

graze

incinerate

kick

languish

lay out

macerate

mar

march

mark up

melt

pad

rub down

ruin

scrape

shamble

shuffling

skin

slipper

slouch

sound

🔉

spend

thaw

trudge

unmake

use up

vitiate

walk

🚶

wear away

wearing

wear off

wear-out

Traducciones

abstoßen

abnutzen

Abnutzung

stropicciare

şıpıdık

abscharren

aufscharren

boxen

📦

hışırtı

trascinare

schlurfen

γλιστρών

γδέρνω

λυώνω

χαλώ

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/skʌf/

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con inglés: shove

In summary

From Scots scuff (“to touch lightly, graze, hit”), of obscure origin. Perhaps from Old Norse skúfa (“to shove, push aside”), from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną (“to shove”). Or, perhaps imitative. More at English shove.