Definitions for scuffs

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Spelling: [skuhf]

IPA: /skʌf/

Scuffs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in scuffs (cffssu).

Definitions for scuffs

noun

1. the act or sound of scuffing.
2. a flat-heeled slipper with a full-length sole and an upper part covering only the front of the foot.
3. a marred or scratched place on an item, as from scraping or wear.
4. the act or sound of scuffing.
5. a flat-heeled slipper with a full-length sole and an upper part covering only the front of the foot.
6. a marred or scratched place on an item, as from scraping or wear.

verb (used with object)

1. to scrape (something) with one's foot or feet.
2. to rub or scrape (one's foot or feet) over something.
3. to mar by scraping or hard use, as shoes or furniture.
4. Chiefly Scot. to brush against, as in passing. to brush off; wipe off.
5. to scrape (something) with one's foot or feet.
6. to rub or scrape (one's foot or feet) over something.
7. to mar by scraping or hard use, as shoes or furniture.
8. Chiefly Scot. to brush against, as in passing. to brush off; wipe off.

verb (used without object)

1. to walk without raising the feet from the ground; shuffle.
2. to scrape or rub one's foot back and forth over something.
3. to be or become marred or scratched by scraping or wear.
4. (of machine parts, as gear teeth) to creep from pressure and friction so that ridges appear transversely to the direction of wear.
5. to walk without raising the feet from the ground; shuffle.
6. to scrape or rub one's foot back and forth over something.
7. to be or become marred or scratched by scraping or wear.
8. (of machine parts, as gear teeth) to creep from pressure and friction so that ridges appear transversely to the direction of wear.

Origin of scuffs

First recorded in 1585-95, scuff is from the Middle Low German word schūven to shove

Examples for scuffs

Every now and then she'd scuff her toe in the rug, and how some of us escaped a soup or a gravy bath I can't figure out.

Such a blow is usually sufficient to crack or chip the shell, or at least to scuff away parts of the epidermal covering.

I thought I ought to cough or scuff my feet or something, but it seemed too late for that.

"Oh, I'm too happy to scuff," and she kicked off the other rubber.

You need some scuff marks from the great merry-go-round we call life.

In the lightlessness, and above the wailing of the terrified people about them, they could hear the scuff of running feet.

I scuff and stamp the snow away and pull it open with difficulty.

scuff it up, patinate it, so that it feels more physically, viscerally real, and a little less perfect.

"You could scuff it and I could wear myself out cleanin', I suppose," retorted Jane.

If I could a got him by the scuff of the neck, I'd a treated him jist like any wermin;—I would, indeed!

Such a blow is usually sufficient to crack or chip the shell, or at least to scuff away parts of the epidermal covering.

I thought I ought to cough or scuff my feet or something, but it seemed too late for that.

In the lightlessness, and above the wailing of the terrified people about them, they could hear the scuff of running feet.

You need some scuff marks from the great merry-go-round we call life.

I scuff and stamp the snow away and pull it open with difficulty.

"You could scuff it and I could wear myself out cleanin', I suppose," retorted Jane.

"Oh, I'm too happy to scuff," and she kicked off the other rubber.

scuff it up, patinate it, so that it feels more physically, viscerally real, and a little less perfect.

If I could a got him by the scuff of the neck, I'd a treated him jist like any wermin;—I would, indeed!

Every now and then she'd scuff her toe in the rug, and how some of us escaped a soup or a gravy bath I can't figure out.