scuffle

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈskʌfəl/
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• rhymes with -ʌfəl
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• CMU ARPABET: S K AH1 F AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”).

The noun is a borrowing from Dutch schoffel; the English verb arose via subsequent verbification within English but is also parallel with Dutch schoffelen.

99 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Basque: liskar — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Bulgarian: боричкане (boričkane) — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Bulgarian: схватка (shvatka) — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Catalan: batussa — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Czech: rvačka — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Dutch: handgemeen — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Dutch: scheldpartij — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Dutch: schermutseling — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Dutch: schermutselingen — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Finnish: käsirysy — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Finnish: nujakka — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Finnish: kahakka — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Finnish: kahina — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• French: rixe — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• French: échauffourée — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• French: bagarre — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Galician: pelexa — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• German: Handgemenge — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• German: Rauferei — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Hungarian: dulakodás — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Hungarian: csetepaté — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Hungarian: verekedés — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Italian: zuffa — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Italian: rissa — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Italian: baruffa — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Italian: ruffa — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Japanese: 取っ組み合い (tokkumiai) — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Northern Kurdish: pevçûn — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Norman: freûlée — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Polish: bójka — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Polish: szamotanina — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Polish: przepychanka — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Portuguese: rixa — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Romanian: încăierare — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Russian: сты́чка (stýčka) — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Russian: дра́ка (dráka) — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Sicilian: scuppazzata — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Sicilian: cappuliata — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Southern Altai: јудрукташ (ǰudruktaš) — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Spanish: riña — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Spanish: refriega — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Swedish: slagsmål — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Swedish: handgemäng — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Turkish: boğuşma — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Ukrainian: бійка (bijka) — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Ukrainian: сутичка (sutyčka) — rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
• Dutch: schoffel — specialized hoe for weeding
• French: binette — specialized hoe for weeding
• Māori: pāketu — specialized hoe for weeding
• Polish: graca — specialized hoe for weeding
• Russian: пропо́лочная моты́га (propóločnaja motýga) — specialized hoe for weeding
• Russian: голла́ндская моты́га (gollándskaja motýga) — specialized hoe for weeding
• Spanish: azada holandesa — specialized hoe for weeding
• Acehnese: meuleukek — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Azerbaijani: dalaşmaq — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Azerbaijani: çarpışmaq — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Bulgarian: боричкам се (boričkam se) — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Catalan: esbatussar-se — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Dutch: roepen — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Dutch: schelden — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Finnish: nujakoida — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Finnish: kahakoida — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Finnish: kahista — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Finnish: kärhämöidä — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• German: raufen — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• German: balgen — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Hungarian: dulakodik — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Norman: s'freûler — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Polish: naparzać się — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Polish: młócić się — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Polish: grzmocić się — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Polish: trzaskać się — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Polish: szamotać się — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Polish: targać się — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Polish: tłuc się — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Polish: prać się — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Polish: walić się — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Polish: napieprzać się — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Romanian: a se încăiera — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Russian: дра́ться (drátʹsja) — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Spanish: reñir — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Ukrainian: битися (bytysja) — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Ukrainian: чубитися (čubytysja) — to fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters
• Khiamniungan Naga: ā-āp-í — to fight or struggle confusedly typically to obtain someone's possession
• Polish: bić się — to fight or struggle confusedly typically to obtain someone's possession
• Polish: szamotać się — to fight or struggle confusedly typically to obtain someone's possession
• Bulgarian: тътря се (tǎtrja se) — to walk with a shuffling gait
• Finnish: laahustaa — to walk with a shuffling gait
• German: schlurfen — to walk with a shuffling gait
• Hungarian: csoszog — to walk with a shuffling gait
• Polish: szurać — to walk with a shuffling gait
• Russian: ша́ркать (šárkatʹ) — to walk with a shuffling gait
• Ukrainian: човгати (čovhaty) — to walk with a shuffling gait
• Ukrainian: плентатися (plentatysja) — to walk with a shuffling gait
• Finnish: kitkuttaa — to get by (financially)
• Finnish: kituuttaa — to get by (financially)
• Finnish: kitkutella — to get by (financially)
• Finnish: nitkuttaa — to get by (financially)
• Polish: wiązać koniec z końcem — to get by (financially)