Scuffle vs Feud - What's the difference?

In intransitive terms the difference between scuffle and feud

is that scuffle is to walk with a shuffling gait while feud is to carry on a feud.

(en noun)

A rough disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters

* L'Estrange

The dog leaps upon the serpent, and tears it to pieces; but in the scuffle the cradle happened to be overturned.

A Dutch hoe, manipulated by both pushing and pulling

(archaic) A child's pinafore or bib.

* (Dutch hoe) scuffle hoe

(scuffl)

To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.

* Eikon Basilike

A gallant man had rather fight to great disadvantage in the field, in an orderly way, than scuffle with an undisciplined rabble.

To walk with a shuffling gait.

(slang) To make a living with difficulty, getting by on a low income, to struggle financially.

From (etyl) fede, feide, , ultimately from the same Germanic source. Related to (l), (l).

* fede (obsolete)

(en noun)

A state of long-standing mutual hostility.

''You couldn't call it a feud exactly, but there had always been a chill between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.

(professional wrestling slang) A staged rivalry between wrestlers.

(obsolete) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.

(en verb)

To carry on a feud.

''The two men began to feud after one of them got a job promotion and the other thought he was more qualified.

From (etyl), from (etyl) feodum.

* feod

(en noun)

An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service

* fee * fief