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Scuff   /skəf/   Listen
Scuff

noun
1.
A slipper that has no fitting around the heel.  Synonym: mule.
2.
The act of scuffing (scraping or dragging the feet).
verb
(past & past part. scuffed; pres. part. scuffing)
1.
Walk without lifting the feet.  Synonym: drag.
2.
Get or become scuffed.
3.
Mar by scuffing.
4.
Poke at with the foot or toe.



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"Scuff" Quotes from Famous Books



... you it shook me and it shamed me. I thought I ought to cough or scuff my feet or something, but it seemed too late for that. Moreover the play had taken another turn that made me forget the moralities, quite, and another actor had come quietly upon ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... searched their downcast features for a sign. Larubio, the cobbler, was paper-white above his smoky beard; Di Marco's swarthy face was green, like that of a corpse; his companions were frozen in various attitudes of eager, dreadful waiting. The only sound through the scuff and tramp of the jurors' feet was Normando's lunatic murmuring. As for the leader of the band, he sat as if graven in stone; but, despite his iron control, a pallor had crept ...
— The Net • Rex Beach
... over and over, old thing!" she cried as she raced down the hallway. "Behold me! I never did have a more becoming dress, and Katy loaned me money, till my income begins, to get shoes and a little scuff hat to go with ...
— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter
... Callahan. "If I don't make thim junketers think they're in the scuff iv a cyclone whin I get thim on the crooks beyant Dolores ye can gimme time, Misther M'Tosh. Where do ...
— The Grafters • Francis Lynde
... Cap'n Aaron, starting for the front hall with a scuff, a hop, a skip, and jump, in order to favor his sprained toe. ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day


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