Scuff

/skʌf/ · verb

Meaning

To scrape the feet while walking..

Definitions by Sense

1. To scrape the feet while walking.
2. To scrape and roughen the surface of (shoes, etc.)
3. To hit lightly, to brush against.
4. To mishit (a shot on a ball) due to poor contact with the ball.
5. (sometimes attributive) A mark left by scuffing or scraping.
6. The sound of a scuff or scrape.
7. (Australia, New Zealand) A slipper.
8. (Scotland, uncommon) A (sudden) shower of rain or mist.

Example Sentences

The lawns and gardens had been scuffed away.

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.

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.

Someone left scuff marks in the sand.

He flung his shoes across the room, their soles leaving black scuffs on the dingy wall.

All you could hear was the rhythmic scuff of Mr. Stink’s battered brogues as he walked slowly along the road

It was a dark, gloomy day, with black clouds driven by the wind, and scuffs of grey showers scudding among the hilltops. Presently lying couched amid the heather we saw the dragoons come marching loosely two and two,[…]

and when I got [to] the shoulder of the Craig yonder, cold scuffs of mist were reaching down from higher up, that told me how my view was to be spoiled, and warned me to mind my path. But I knew the heights; many a time have I been caught in the descending clouds, and a mist was like an old friend.

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• scuffs
• scuffing
• scuffed

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