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Scuffing vs Cuffing - What's the difference?

scuffing | cuffing |

As verbs the difference between scuffing and cuffing

is that scuffing is while cuffing is .

As nouns the difference between scuffing and cuffing

is that scuffing is a scuff mark while cuffing is the act by which somebody is cuffed or struck.

scuffing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A scuff mark.
  • * 2011 , Keith Roberts, Machines and Men
    • From little marks perhaps, dents, scuffings on the walls where from time to time he had hurled objects in those fits of childish pique that seemed to be becoming more frequent with him.

    cuffing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody is cuffed or struck.
  • * (Mark Twain), Following the Equator
    • I was able to remember that the method seemed right and natural to me in those days, I being born to it and unaware that elsewhere there were other methods; but I was also able to remember that those unresented cuffings made me sorry for the victim and ashamed for the punisher.