Scuffled vs Snuffled - What's the difference?
scuffled | snuffled |
(scuffle)
A rough disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
* L'Estrange
A Dutch hoe, manipulated by both pushing and pulling
(archaic) A child's pinafore or bib.
To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.
* Eikon Basilike
To walk with a shuffling gait.
(slang) To make a living with difficulty, getting by on a low income, to struggle financially.
(snuffle)
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
As verbs the difference between scuffled and snuffled
is that scuffled is (scuffle) while snuffled is (snuffle).scuffled
English
Verb
(head)scuffle
English
Noun
(en noun)- The dog leaps upon the serpent, and tears it to pieces; but in the scuffle the cradle happened to be overturned.
Synonyms
* (Dutch hoe) scuffle hoeVerb
(scuffl)- A gallant man had rather fight to great disadvantage in the field, in an orderly way, than scuffle with an undisciplined rabble.
snuffled
English
Verb
(head)snuffle
English
Verb
(snuffl)- One clad in purple / Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme / Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat.
