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Scuff vs Scrabble - What's the difference?

scuff | scrabble |

As verbs the difference between scuff and scrabble

is that scuff is to mishit (a shot on a ball) due to poor contact with the ball while scrabble is .

As an adjective scuff

is caused by scraping, usually with one's feet.

As a noun scuff

is the back part of the neck; the scruff.

scuff

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Caused by scraping, usually with one's feet.
  • Someone left scuff marks in the sand.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mishit (a shot on a ball) due to poor contact with the ball.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=September 2 , author= , title=Wales 2-1 Montenegro , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=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.}}
  • To scrape the feet while walking.
  • To hit lightly, to brush against.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=December 29 , author=Keith Jackson , title=SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0 , work=Daily Record citation , page= , passage=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.}}

    Derived terms

    * scuff mark

    See also

    * scoff * scruff

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The back part of the neck; the scruff.
  • Anagrams

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    scrabble

    English

    Verb

    (scrabbl)
  • To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
  • Thus I lay for a long time, but afterwards stood up and cried aloud, and shrieked if anyone should haply hear me, calling to Mr. Glennie and Ratsey, and even Elzevir, by name, to save me from this awful place. But there came no answer, except the echo of my own voice sounding hollow and far off down in the vault. So in despair I turned back to the earth wall below the slab, and scrabbled at it with my fingers, till my nails were broken and the blood ran out; having all the while a sure knowledge, like a cord twisted round my head, that no effort of mine could ever dislodge the great stone.
  • To move something about by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws.
  • She was on her hands and knees scrabbling in the mud, looking for her missing wedding ring.
  • To scribble.
  • * Bible, 1 Sam. xxi. 13
  • David scrabbled on the doors of the gate.
  • To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble on.
  • to scrabble paper

    Derived terms

    * hardscrabble * scrabbler

    See also

    * scrap * scrape * scrapple (a sausage-like food)

    Anagrams

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