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Scuffled vs Snuffled - What's the difference?

scuffled | snuffled |

As verbs the difference between scuffled and snuffled

is that scuffled is (scuffle) while snuffled is (snuffle).

scuffled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (scuffle)

  • scuffle

    English

    Noun

    (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.
  • Synonyms

    * (Dutch hoe) scuffle hoe

    Verb

    (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.
  • snuffled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (snuffle)

  • snuffle

    English

    Verb

    (snuffl)
  • to sniff with the nose loudly and audibly.
  • To sniff or smell something very loudly.
  • To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.
  • * Dryden
  • One clad in purple / Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme / Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat.

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of snuffling; sniffing loudly