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third-person singular simple present scuffs, present participle scuffing, simple past and past participle scuffed
To scrape the feet while walking. examples
To scrape and roughen the surface of (shoes, etc.) examples
To hit lightly, to brush against. quotations examples
The lawns and gardens had been scuffed away.
1979, V. S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River
Wallace threw himself at it to connect with a flying header. He looked a certain scorer but his effort scuffed the inside of Fraser Forster’s post.
2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record
To mishit (a shot on a ball) due to poor contact with the ball. quotations examples
The Montenegro captain was finding space at will and followed up with a speculative shot that he scuffed wide, after Wales were slow in closing down the Juventus striker.
2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC
plural scuffs
(sometimes attributive) A mark left by scuffing or scraping. quotations examples
He flung his shoes across the room, their soles leaving black scuffs on the dingy wall.
2015, Charles W. Jones, Hydrangeas on the Lanai
The sound of a scuff or scrape quotations examples
All you could hear was the rhythmic scuff of Mr. Stink’s battered brogues as he walked slowly along the road
2009, David Walliams, Mr Stink
A scurf; a scale. examples
The back part of the neck; the scruff. quotations examples
One of the biggest and most redoubted of the Black Family was now in that seat of dignity, and, refusing surlily to yield it at Jasper's rude summons, was seized by the scuff of the neck, and literally hurled on the table in front.
1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, What Will He Do with It?