Scuff vs Scrabble - What's the difference?
scuff | scrabble |
Caused by scraping, usually with one's feet.
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
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
To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To move something about by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws.
To scribble.
* Bible, 1 Sam. xxi. 13
To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble on.
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
(-)- Someone left scuff marks in the sand.
Verb
(en verb)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.}}
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 markSee also
* scoff * scruffAnagrams
*scrabble
English
Verb
(scrabbl)- 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.
- She was on her hands and knees scrabbling in the mud, looking for her missing wedding ring.
- David scrabbled on the doors of the gate.
- to scrabble paper