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Scruffle vs. Scuffle — What's the Difference?

Scruffle vs. Scuffle — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Scruffle and Scuffle

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Scruffle

A scuffle; a physical fight or struggle.

Scuffle

To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.

Scruffle

To scuffle; to wrestle.

Scuffle

To shuffle.

Scuffle

A rough disorderly struggle at close quarters.
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Scuffle

A hoe that is designed to work soil by being pushed and pulled. Also called Dutch hoe, scuffle hoe.

Scuffle

A rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters.

Scuffle

(slang) Poverty; struggle.

Scuffle

(archaic) A child's pinafore or bib.

Scuffle

A Dutch hoe, manipulated by both pushing and pulling.

Scuffle

(intransitive) To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.

Scuffle

(intransitive) To walk with a shuffling gait.

Scuffle

(slang) To make a living with difficulty, getting by on a low income, to struggle financially.

Scuffle

To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.

Scuffle

Hence, to strive or contend tumultuously; to struggle confusedly or at haphazard.
A gallant man had rather fight to great disadvantage in the field, in an orderly way, than scuffle with an undisciplined rabble.

Scuffle

A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters.

Scuffle

Hence, a confused contest; a tumultuous struggle for superiority; a fight.
The dog leaps upon the serpent, and tears it to pieces; but in the scuffle the cradle happened to be overturned.

Scuffle

A child's pinafore or bib.

Scuffle

A garden hoe.

Scuffle

Disorderly fighting

Scuffle

A hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling

Scuffle

An unceremonious and disorganized struggle

Scuffle

Walk by dragging one's feet;
He shuffled out of the room
We heard his feet shuffling down the hall

Scuffle

Fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters;
The drunken men started to scuffle

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