scuffle

Meaning

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Hyphenated as
scuf‧fle
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈskʌfəl/
Etymology

In summary

Possibly of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin; compare Swedish skuff (“a push”) and skuffa (“to push”), from the Proto-Germanic base *skuf- (skuƀ), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-, see also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skubać (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”).

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